INTRODUCTION 9 



similar society would wage war against the senseless fashion of 

 wearing elk's teeth when the wearer has not shot the animal ; 

 for such a fashion simply becomes one cause of extermination. 

 The mule, or Rocky Mountain blacktail, deer is in some 

 localities migratory. This is the case in Colorado, where the 

 winter and summer ranges of the deer are wholly distinct, and 

 where during the migrations the animals follow well-estab- 

 lished trails leading over and among the mountains and across 

 the streams. Some of Mr. Wallihan's most beautiful pictures 

 are those taken of deer crossing a stream. In dealing with 

 the prong-horn antelope, on the other hand, a shy and far- 

 sighted creature of the dry, open prairie, almost the only chance 

 consisted in catching the game when it came to drink. Inci- 

 dentally it will be seen that Mr. Wallihan in his description 

 lays stress upon the superior keenness of vision of the antelope 

 as compared to the deer. Mr. Wallihan is a very close and 

 accurate observer, as indeed it was necessary he should be in 

 order to obtain such results as he has obtained. His remarks 

 on the comparative dullness of the deer's eyesight are in accord 

 not only with my experience, but with those of almost every 

 first-class hunter whom I have met. Yet I have known book 

 authorities to assert the contrary. Of course it is all a matter 

 of comparison. A deer's vision is better than that of a buffalo, 

 and, I believe, better than that of a bear, and a motion catches 

 its eye at once. But the antelope has better sight by far than 

 any other game, and will be brought to a condition of alert 

 suspicion by the sight of a man at a distance so great that he 



