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The size and weight vary much. One hundred and fifty pounds is 

 a good average. A large specimen weighed 333^4^ pounds. 



Katige. — United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from 

 the British possessions to Mexico. This deer is found in every State 

 in the Union except Delaware, Oregon, Nevada, and California. Abun- 

 dant in Maine, Vermont, the Adirondacks, New York, Michigan and 

 Minnesota and parts of British provinces and Mexico. 



Note. — This is the best all-around big-game animal in North America. Its 

 place among the big-game animals is similar to that of the partridge, bob-white, 

 among the birds. "One fine old white-tailed buck," says Hornaday, "killed 

 by fair and square trailing and stalking, is equal to two mule-deer or three elk." 

 This is the best deer for the game-preserve. It thrives wherever protected. 

 Under good laws, well executed, it is showing an increase in New England and 

 in the Adirondacks, and is increasing on Long Island with ' ' surprising rapidity. '• 

 The open season on Long Island is only four days per annum. 



(a) Florida White-tailed Deer. 



This is a smaller variety of Virginia deer. It is also distinguished 

 by its smaller antlers and scanty pelage. 



{J)) Arizona White-tailed Deer. 



A much smaller or dwarf variety of the Virginia deer. Its range 

 extends from southern Arizona southeastward into Mexico to lati- 

 tude 25°. 



Both {a and b) are said to be nothing more than diminutiv'e races 

 of the more robust northern type, with very small antlers and the 

 short scanty pelage which is necessary to the comfort of deer in the 

 tropics. — Hornaday. 



6. The Vy^oodland Caribou. — Rangifer caribou. 



This animal is much like the familiar reindeer of Europe. Its 

 color is gray or "bluish brown." It is easily distinguished by its 

 antlers, which are palmated, but not so widely as those of the moose. 

 Both sexes have antlers. Those of the female are smaller. None of 

 our deer, excepting the moose and caribou, have palmated antlens. 

 The moo.se antlers are so large, heavy and widely palmated as not to 

 be compared with those of the caribou. The body of the caribou is 

 also much smaller than that of the moose. The largest caribou meas- 

 ures not over fifty-five inches at the shoulder. 



Range. — Maine and northern parts of the Rocky Mountain States ; 

 British pcssessions, south of the barren grounds, where it is replaced 

 by the barren-ground caribou. 



