OF THE LARGE AMERICAN MAMMALS 



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are no wild deer; or in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, 

 Tennessee or Kentucky. The long close seasons in Massa- 

 chusetts, Connecticut and southern New York have caused a 



THE WHITE-TAILED DEER AS A FOOD SUPPLY. 



But the killing of the females was totally wrong. 



great migration of deer into those once-depopulated regions 

 in fact, right down to tide-water. 



THE MULE DEER. The number of sportsmen who have 

 hunted and killed this fine animal in its own wild and pic- 

 turesque bad lands is indeed quite small. It has been four- 

 fifths exterminated by the resident hunter and ranchman, 

 and to-day is found in the Rocky Mountain region most 

 sparingly. Ten years ago it seemed right to hunt the so- 

 called Rocky Mountain "black-tail" in northwestern Mon- 



