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luvial land of the rivers and large creeks is found the 

 white-tail. Back of these alluvial lands generally 

 comes a broad tract of broken, hilly country, scantily 

 clad with brush in some places ; this is the abode of 

 the black-tail deer. And where these hills rise high- 

 est, and where the ground is most rugged and bar- 

 ren, there the big-horn is found. After this hilly 

 country is passed, in traveling away from the river, 

 we come to the broad, level plains, the domain of 

 the antelope. Of course the habitats of the different 

 species overlap at the edges ; and this overlapping is 

 most extended in the cases of the big-horn and the 

 black-tail. 



The Bad Lands are the favorite haunts of the 

 black-tail. Here the hills are steep and rugged, cut 

 up and crossed in every direction by canyon-like 

 ravines and valleys, which branch out and subdivide 

 in the most intricate and perplexing manner. Here 

 and there are small springs, or pools, marked by 

 the greener vegetation growing round them. Along 

 the bottoms and sides of the ravines there are 

 patches of scrubby undergrowth, and in many of the 

 pockets or glens in the sides of the hills the trees 

 grow to some little height. High buttes rise here 

 and there, naked to the top, or else covered with 

 stunted pines and cedars, which also grow in the 

 deep ravines and on the edges of the sheer canyons. 

 Such lands, where the ground is roughest, and 

 where there is some cover, even though scattered 

 and scanty, are the best places to find the black-tail. 

 Naturally their pursuit needs very different quali- 



