80 HOOFED ANIMALS 
speaking, it is a United States species, for it inhabits at least 
a portion of every state and territory save Delaware, Oregon, 
Nevada, California and Arizona. To-day it is most abundant 
in the Adirondacks, Maine, Vermont, northern Minnesota 
and Michigan. Closely related forms of White-Tailed Deer 
are fairly abundant in Florida, on the lower Rio Grande 
and in northeastern Washington. 
As might naturally be expected, this wide distribution, 
throughout such a diversity of country and variety of avail- 
able food, has produced such variations in size that several 
subspecies have been described. Of the latter, the most 
important is the dwarf Arizona Wuitsr-TaILep Dersr, ex- 
tending from southern Arizona southeastward into Mexico 
to Latitude 25°. This animal, like the Frormpa WHITE- 
TarLtep Deer, seems to be nothing more than a diminutive 
race of the more robust northern type, with very small ant- 
lers, and the short, scanty pelage which is necessary to the 
comfort of deer in the tropics. 
In such forests as those which cover the Adirondack 
Mountains of northern New York, where small lakes are 
numerous, there are three methods of hunting deer. 
Hounding deer consists in beating through the forest sur- 
rounding a body of water, with a pack of hounds, and chas- 
ing the deer until they leap into the water, where they are 
shot at very short range by men in boats or posted on the 
shore. It is no credit to any one, save an invalid or a cripple, 
to kill a deer in this manner, any more than to kill a buck out 
of season, whose antlers are in the velvet. Any person, no 
matter how stupid, can be paddled up to a swimming deer 
