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than a fallow-deer, and are excellent as venison, though in my own 

 opinion inferior to the black-tail. 



I was unfortunate, during my sojourn in the Big Horn, in not 

 obtaining a specimen of the Rocky Mountains ram, or " Big 

 Horn." I saw ewes upon several occasions, but I would not fire 

 at females. 



