Index 



333 



Rogue River Mountains, blacktail 



hunting, 232. 

 Round-horned elk, see Wapiti. 



Sacramento valley elk, 168, 169. 

 San Joaquin valley elk, 167, 169. 

 Scandinavia reindeer — species of 



caribou, 283. 

 Sheffield, J. R. — moose and deer in 



northern Maine, 70. 

 Shooting, see Hunting. 

 Sierra Nevada — 



Deer ranges, 226, 227. 

 Mule-deer, 195. 

 " Slow-tracking dog " — blacktail 



still-hunting, 241, 243. 

 Snow — 



Caribou chase, 267-270. 

 Whitetail habits in winter, 74-76. 

 Soldiers — hunters' qualities, 24, 79, 



82. 

 Spanish Californians, hunting skill, 



172. 

 Spitzbergen reindeer — species of 



caribou, 283. 

 Stalking caribou, 266. 

 Still-hunting — 



Columbia blacktail, 241-245. 

 Elk, 187. 

 Moose, 80. 



Pacific coast mule-deer, 224. 

 Whitetail, 81. 



Woodland caribou, 264-265. 

 Stone, A. J. — caribou specimens, 



[note] 285. 

 Swamps — caribou still-hunting, 264. 



Virginia deer — 



Compared with Columbia black- 

 tail, 253-255. 

 Distinction from Pacific coast 



blacktail, 226. 

 Food, 195. 

 Gait, 198, 199. 

 Hunting chances, 175. 



Virginia deer [continued] — 

 Leaping movement, 247. 

 Name, 4. 

 Watching back track, 252. 



Wagon trips, 119-121, 124. 

 Wapiti, or round-honied elk — 



Antlers, 131. 



Banding into herds, 138. 



Breeding, 136-142, 156. 



Calves, 139, 141. 



Challenge, 137, 154, 156. 



Characteristics, 102. 



Charging, 143. 



Description, 8. 



Extermination compared with 

 other deer, 8, IOO-IOI, 



I3i-i35> 145. H9- 

 Fighting, 141-142. 

 Gait, 141, 144. 

 Hunting, 140, 147-164. 



Beauty of country, 149-151. 

 Migration, 145, 146. 

 Name, 7. 

 Range, 6, 8, 9. 

 Scent, 155. 



Stupidity in time of danger, 

 i35-!36. 

 Washington state, elk hunting, 172. 

 Water — 



Columbia blacktail, watering, 233. 

 Mule-deer of Pacific coast, water- 

 ing. 1 93- ! 94- 

 Prongbuck hunting, 116. 

 Whitetail — 

 Antlers, 9. 



Interlocked antlers — white- 

 tail fight, 76-77. 

 Breeding, 71, 74, 76. 

 Extermination compared with 

 other deer, 65-71, 99-100. 

 Feeding, 72-74. 



Habits, variation in, 65, 7 1-77, 96. 

 Hunting, 78-97. 

 Crusting, 75, 82. 



