CHAPTER V. 



THE BLACK-TAIL DEER. 



AR different from the low- 

 scudding, brush-loving 

 white-tail, is the black-tail 

 deer, the deer of the ra- 

 vines and the rocky up- 

 lands. In general shape 

 and form, both are much 

 alike ; but the black-tail is 

 the larger of the two, with heavier antlers, of which the 

 prongs start from one another, as if each of the tines of 

 a two-pronged pitchfork had bifurcated ; and in some 

 cases it looks as if the process had been again re- 

 peated. The tail, instead of being broad and bushy 

 as a squirrel's, spreading from the base, and pure white 

 to the tip, is round and close haired, with the end black, 

 though the rest is white. If an ordinary deer is run- 

 ning, its flaunting flag is almost its most conspicuous 

 part ; but no one would notice the tail of a black-tail 

 deer. 



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