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ridge near Duffer Peak (altitude about !)(!()() feet) was on damp 

 ground within ten feet of a snowbank. The deer usually choose 

 to bed on pine needles at the foot of a boulder. A small hollow 

 is made for this purpose and the brown pine needles on the earth 

 around the bed offer a very good protective coloring. A distinct 

 deer "trail" was seen on the highevSt ridge in the mountains 

 running through a pass between large piles of boulders. 



On July 30, as I was walking up a little draw, a doe was seen 

 west of the Peak. Quaking aspens and white-bark pines grew in 

 comparative abundance along the creek at this point. I suddenly 

 saw the animal not more than forty feet from me on the other 

 side of the stream, cropping the aspen leaves. She acted as 

 though she felt something was wrong, but evidently neither heard 

 nor saw me. When first observed she had her back toward me. 

 Turning, she walked a few yards along the other side of the 

 stream in my direction. Still she did not see me, although she 

 seemed to scent danger and had stopped eating. While the doe 

 was standing broadside to me, I made a squeaking sound with my 

 lips. A nervous tremor seemed to run through her whole frame, 

 and she looked around to see what was causing the disturbance. 

 I called a second time. She wheeled about and faced me, her ears 

 erect. At the third call she jumped again, and almost immedi- 

 ately turned and bounded up the mountain side. The rapidity 

 of her disappearance was remarkable. She bounded diagonally 

 up the steep slope, leaping over fallen trees and even over a huge 

 boulder. All that was audible at her departure was the "chug! 

 chug ! chug ! " for three times only as her four feet simultaneously 

 hit the ground. 



As we were travelling with pack-outfit around some open sage- 

 covered ridges at an altitude of 7000 feet, a couple of deer sud- 

 denly sprang up from the bottom of a little draw not far below 

 us, one being a buck with good-sized antlers. It seemed rather 

 unusual to see deer in such open and exposed country. However, 

 the prospectors living in the moimtains assert that the bucks come 

 down out of the pines at the time the fawns ai-e born, while the 

 does with their young remain in the higher ])arts of the moun- 

 tains exclusively. Our limited observations of the deer are con- 

 firmatory of this statement. 



