290 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMmiSCENOES. 



are easily disposed of; in most 

 instances, however, the combat- 

 ants perish from exhaustion, and 

 seldom one manages to free itself 

 from its exhausted or perhaps 

 dead antagonist. 



In the following pages can be 

 seen the interesting photographs 

 (from the Friedrich's collection) 

 of a number of such locked deer 



ing the ground the appearance 

 of having been plowed. They fi- 

 nally drop from exhaustion. TTs- 

 ually the coyotes are attracted by 

 the noise they make, and no soon- 

 er do the combatants strike the 

 ground from exhaustion than the 

 coyotes begin to feast on their 

 flesh, as the deer can not defend 

 themselves in that condition nor 



A Good Specimen of Texas Deer 



horns, mostly Texas specimens . 

 Mr. Friedrich in his souvenir book 

 explains the fighting capacity of. 

 locked deer thus : ' ' These animals 

 will enter into combat so fierce 

 that one can hear them strike 

 their horns in the woods for a mile 

 and when they do get their horns 

 locked, they will try to free them- 

 selves, and by so doing, they will 

 tear up the ground for two or 

 three acres with their hoofs, giv- 



make their escape." 



In connection with the above 

 memoranda, I also annex the or- 

 iginal photoview of a Texas deer 

 head found lately (or rather the 

 entire remnants of this deer was 

 found torn up and nearly all flesh 

 devoured by wolves) by a Mexi- 

 can ranchero employed at the farm 

 of Mr. Fred Biehl at the Culebra 

 Creek, near Helotes, and about 

 four miles east of Leon Springs — 



