DIvER. 



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When a deer is stalked 

 and sees sonielhiiii^ oi" 

 which lie is afraid lie oen- 

 erall}' utters a snort of 

 alarm, and then away he 

 goes, his white tail held 

 straight up in the air, 

 showing clearly as he 

 bounds high o y e r the 

 bushes. If you have hred 



at him and he goes off witli his tail down 3'ou may be sure he is 

 badly wounded. I have shot at deer at long range and seen them 

 go away without raising their tails, but could Hnd no signs of blood 

 along the trail ; yet upon following it for a short distance the deer 

 would be found quite dead. Oftentimes a deer will bleed badly from 

 a comparatively slight xvound, and again be seriously ^vounded 



and bleed externally but 

 little. 



The Florida Deer is 

 smaller and varies slightly 

 in colcM- from the true C. 

 I' i r i^-/ u / a 1/ 11 s. A full- 

 grown buck will often not 

 weigh over no pounds, 

 althougli I have killed 

 them considerably larger, 

 and probably they occa- 

 sionally ( though rarely) 

 approach in size their 

 Northern relation. In 

 Florida as elsewhere the 

 bucks dr()]-» their anders 

 every year, usually about 

 February. The rutting 

 season occurs in Septem- 



