THE FAN-TAILED DEER 



THE existence of the fan-tailed deer, or 

 gazelle-deer, as it is sometimes called, is 

 denied by some who know no better, but 

 it is generally recognized by " old timers " and 

 men who hunt it in its present restricted habitat. 

 That its range was formerly more extensive than 

 now, and that even now it still exists in widely 

 separated districts, the writer infers from a let- 

 ter of Justice Douglas, late of the Supreme 

 Court of New York, whose guide apparently 

 shot one in Michigan, and from an article in a 

 sportsman's periodical by Mr. Ernest McGaffey, 

 who found it in the Black Hills. The writer 

 found relics of them in the Bad Lands of Mon- 

 tana and live specimens in the Snowy Moun- 

 tains of the same State. It is evidently a smaller 

 variety of the common Virginia deer, with a 

 markedly longer tail; however, as its track shows 

 some decided differences, by which it can readily 



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