124 THE DEER FAMILY 



up, gazing at the strange light. Mr. Shiras told me he 

 was entirely unaware that he had "bagged" the porcu- 

 pine until he developed his negative. The negatives 

 from which these pictures are made are all excellent 

 and Mr. Shiras showed me some enlargements made 

 from them which were quite sharp. 



Roosevelt called our attention to the fact that where 

 the mule-deer and the white-tail are associated, the for- 

 mer disappears first, since it is easier to shoot. The 

 white-tail is less often seen in the open, and is more 

 often found in low river-valleys far from the hills. 

 The hunter who can take the advantage of locating his 

 game from an eminence and then go to it under cover 

 has the best chance of bagging it. 



The white-tail is the deer for parks and preserves. 

 Since it is found in every State in the Union, except 

 four,* it will do well anywhere. It becomes half 

 tame, unless the park be of vast extent, and when 

 tame is, of course, uninteresting to a true sports- 

 man. 



The following is a clever description of deer-shoot- 

 ing, with turkey " on the side," on the preserve of the 

 Oketee Club near Savannah, Ga. The Oketee and the 

 Pineland Clubs (largely composed of New York and 

 Philadelphia men) adjoin, and together they own and 

 control a strip of land which, with the private hold- 

 ings of Mr. Garnett, the president of both clubs, con- 

 tains about 103,000 acres. The tract is thirty-five 

 miles long by from two to seven miles wide. Besides 



* Delaware, Oregon, Nevada, and California. Hornaday adds Arizona, 

 but Arizona has the small variety known as the Arizona white-tail deer, as 

 Florida has the Florida white-tail. 



