VIRGINIA DEER. 9 1 



extent and in numbers. They do not entirely desert any district 

 which they occupy at any season of the year, yet in the northern 

 portion of their range numbers seem to change their abode from 

 the north to the south in September and October, for a few hun- 

 dred miles at least. We shall not stop now to detail the evidence 

 tending to this conclusion. We have found the testimony of all 

 our Indians to be in favor of a general migration of the deer. It 

 is a subject on which little has been written by naturalists or 

 sportsmen. 



