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ance due to the narrowness of the pale subterminal rings of 

 the hairs. There is a poorly defined median dark dorsal line 

 on neck and shoulders ; upper side of tail light ochraceous-buff 

 at base, more dusky toward tip; brow patch, with prominent 

 suffusion of chestnut; white of under parts not reaching the 

 axillae. Summer coat redder. 



Formerly this deer was found "at least in the Cowlitz and 

 lower Columbia River Valleys of western Washington, possibly 

 also eastward for some distance along the Columbia, there 

 being one report from Pasco" but at present is much restricted 

 and has even been supposed to be extinct in that State (Taylor 

 and Shaw, 1929). South of the Columbia River it formerly 

 ranged along the coast west of the Cascades nearly to the Cali- 

 fornia line. It was typically an animal of the river bottoms. 

 In 1826 Douglas reported this as the commonest deer in the 

 districts adjoining the Columbia River and in the fertile 

 prairies of the Cowlitz and Willamette Rivers. He found it 

 also near the head of tidewater on the Umpqua River. There 

 are no positive records of its occurrence farther south in the 

 Coast Range valleys but northward these deer extend to the 

 Puget Sound country of Washington. In 1872-75 they were 

 still of regular occurrence in the Willamette Valley, though 

 less common than 20 years before, but after that time they 

 rapidly disappeared. According to the report of a reliable 

 hunter in that valley, the last whitetail he knew of was killed 

 about 1898 near Sweet Home, Linn County (Bailey, 1936). 

 These deer were said to be common in the foothills about 

 Beaverton, Washington County, Oreg., from 1860 to 1875. 



Until very recently the only remaining deer of this race were 

 supposedly to be found in Douglas County, Oregon, where, 

 according to Vernon Bailey (1936), Stanley G. Jewett in 1915 

 reported a few still inhabiting the Long Tom Swamp west of 

 Eugene and a few on the oak-covered hills along the Umpqua 

 River, some miles northeast of Roseburg. In this latter region, 

 according to Scheffer (1940), the "herd" is now believed to 

 number 200 to 300 animals, upon which the State Game 

 Commission enforces a strict closed season. Curiously, how- 

 ever, Scheffer reports that this deer is still to be found in some 

 numbers on both sides of the mouth of the Columbia River, 

 a fact that had previously quite escaped notice. According to 

 his detailed account (Scheffer, 1940), the present range of these 



