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THE GAME ANIMALS OF CANADA 37 



animals. The successful efforts of the Forest, Fish, and 

 Game Commission of the State of New York serve as an 

 excellent example of what may be accomplished in this 

 direction. From 1901 to 1903 several small herds of wapiti 

 were presented by the owners of private herds, and these 

 were liberated in small bands, chiefly on State lands. Their 

 increase was so satisfactory that by the end of 1907 it was 



I estimated that the total number at large in the Adirondacks 

 was about 350. 



I The wapiti can be readily bred in private parks, and in 

 his useful bulletin on the raising of deer David E. Lantz* 

 has given many successful examples of such private enter- 



Krise. This bulletin gives full information on the manage- 

 ment of these animals, and will be found of great assistance 

 a any persons who may desire to undertake this commend- 

 ble line of game preservation. 



DEER 



In Canada we have three species of deer, excluding the 

 wapiti or elk: the white-tailed or ''red" deer, also called the 

 Virginia deer {Odocoileus virginianus) ; the mule deer, or 

 Rocky Mountain "black-tail" {Odocoileus hemionus) of the 

 west, and the Columbian black-tailed deer {Odocoileus colum- 

 hianus) of the Pacific coast. The three species are very 

 distinct and easily separated; they exhibit differences in 

 size, form, antlers, and certain other structural details, and 

 in their habits; all of which characteristics will be described 

 in the following accounts of the three species. 



The White-tailed Deer {Odocoileus virginianus) 



Strange as it may seem, the territory occupied by this 

 timid denizen of our woods and forests has actually increased, 



* David E. Lantz, "Raising Deer and Other Large Game Animals in the 

 United States." U. S. Dept. Agriculture, Biological Survey Bull. No. 36, 

 62 pp., 8 phites, 1910. 



