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bounds, all four feet striking the earth 

 at the same time. Its habits are like- 

 wise very different, as it is a bolder ani- 

 mal and much fonder of the open coun- 

 try. Among the Rockies it is found in 

 the deep forests, but it prefers scantily 

 wooded regions, and in the plains country 

 it dwells by choice in the rough hills, 

 spending the day in the patches of ash or 

 cedar among the ravines. In 1882 the 

 black-tail was very much more abun- 

 dant than the white-tail almost every- 

 where in the West, but owing to the nat- 

 ure of its haunts it is more easily killed 

 out, and in 1897, though both species 

 had decreased in numbers, the white-tail 

 was on the whole the more common. 



My ranch-house was situated on a 

 heavily wooded bottom, one of the places 

 where the white-tail were found. On 

 one occasion I killed one from the ranch 

 veranda, and two or three times I shot 



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