38 Deer and Antelope of North America 



with well-wooded bottoms, lying among rugged 

 hills, in which I have found whitetail and mule- 

 deer literally within a stone's throw of one 

 another. I once started from two adjoining 

 pockets in this particular creek two does, each 

 with a fawn, one being a mule-deer and the other 

 a whitetail. On another occasion, on an early 

 spring afternoon, just before the fawns were born, 

 I came upon a herd of twenty whitetails, does, 

 and young of the preceding year, grazing greedily 

 on the young grass ; and half a mile up the creek, 

 in an almost exactly similar locality, I came upon 

 just such a herd of mule-deer. In each case the 

 animals were so absorbed in the feasting, which 

 was to make up for their winter privations, that 

 I was able to stalk to within fifty yards, though 

 of course I did not shoot. 



In northwestern Colorado the conditions are 

 entirely different. Throughout the region there 

 is not a single whitetail to be found, and never 

 has been, although in the winter range of the 

 mule-deer there are a few prongbuck; and the 

 wapiti once abounded. The mule-deer are still 

 plentiful. They make a complete migration 

 summer and winter, so that in neither season is a 

 single individual to be found in the haunts they 

 frequent during the other season. In the sum- 

 mer they live and bring forth their young high 

 up in the main chain of the mountains, in a 



