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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 highest, and where the 

 ground is most rugged and barren, there 

 the big-horn is found. After this hilly 

 country is passed, in travelling 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 ex- 

 tended 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 di- 

 rection by canyon-like ravines and val 

 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 under- 

 growth, and in many of the pockets or glens 



