California Fish and Game 



"CONSEIRVATION OF WILD LIFE THROUGH EDUOATION" 



Volume 20 SACRAMENTO. OCTOBER, 1934 No. 4 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



A STUDY OP THE LIFE HISTORY AND FOOD HABITS OP MULE DEER 



IN CALIFORNIA. PART II. FOOD HABITS Joseph S. Dixon 315 



FOURTH ANNUAL BLACK BRANT CENSUS IN CALIFORNIA /. Moffitt 355 



AN EXPERIMENT IN QUAIL IMPORTATION Gordon H. True, Jr 365 



QUAIL BANDING RETURNS FOR 1932 AND 1933 Gordon H. True, Jr. 371 



THE FRESHWATER COMMERCIAL FISHERIES OP CALIFORNIA 



Richard S. Croker 375 



EDITORIALS 385 



COMMERCIAL FISHERY NOTES 392 



STATISTICS- 

 ANGLING License Sales 399 



Statement of Income and Expenditures 395—398 



Violation of Fish and Game Laws 399-400 



Fresh Fish Landings and Importations 401—404 



A STUDY OF THE LIFE HISTORY AND FOOD 

 HABITS OF MULE DEER IN CALIFORNIA* 



By Joseph S. Dixon 



With photographs by the author 



{Concluded from California Fish and Game, Volume 20, Number 3, 



July, 1934, pp. 181-282.) 



* Contribution from the Wildlife Division, United States National Park Service 



PART II— FOOD HABITS 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



FOOD HABITS 316 



General Statement of Food Habits 316 



Methods Used in This Study 316 



Kinds of Food Eaten by Mule Deer 318 



Deer as Eaters op Grass 318 



Availability op Various Foods 321 



Palatability op Various Poods 321 



Seasonal Variation in Food Habits 322 



Summer 322 



Fall 328 



Winter 334 



Spring 337 



Competition With Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Goats 341 



Cultivated Crops Eaten by Mule Deer in California 342 



Game Management 343 



Explanation op Pood Tables . 344 



Lists op Trees, Shrubs, Herbs, Grasses and Sedges Eaten 346 



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