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It is a dwarf compared to the others, for the bucks seldom 

 weigh over seventy pounds, while the does range between forty 

 and sixty pounds. It has small ears ; the hoofs and false 

 hoofs are black ; the tail has a total length, hair at tip included, 

 of eight inches ; the largest antler is about seven inches long ; 

 and the general colour of the body is a pale fawn. It is light 

 and graceful in movement, and rather proud in nspect when 

 gazing at an object. 



It is very abundant in Southern Arizona, where it frequents 

 the coniferous forests of the mountains. The bucks often 

 wander as high as three or four thousand feet, as they obtain 

 plenty of food at that altitude in the bunch grass and tender 

 shrubbery. The does keep to the thickets while their young 

 are with them, but during the running season they scamper 

 about in every direction. These dwarfs are so little hunted, 

 and so numerous, that they show no fear of man unless they 

 scent him to the windward ; hence, they may be approached 

 to within fifty or sixty yards, and a group shot down before 

 they become alarmed enough to flee. 



As they feed abroad during the day-time, owing to their 

 immunity from foes, they may be readily found at all times, 

 and this gives the Imnter an opportunity of making a larger 

 bag than he could probably boast of in any other part of the 

 world. 



By summarizing the various species of the deer family found 

 in the West and South-west we find, excluding the caribou, 

 which rarely comes south of the 54-th parallel, that there are 

 five distinct species, and five varieties, allowing that the white- 

 tail is a variety of the Virginia deer. The species are the 

 moose, wapiti, mule deer, black-tail, and Virginia deer; and the 

 varieties are the lurro or jackass deer of California, the dwarf 

 deer of Sonora and Arizona, the white-tail, and the spotted 

 and the white deer. It is evident, therefore, that the Cerv'uhv 

 are well represented in the country, and as for numbers, they 

 cannot be equalled in any portion of the Continent. 



The methods employed in the West for hunting deer are 

 confined to three, and these are stalking, driving, and still- 

 hunting at night with a lamp or a torch. The two first are 



