PERSISTENCE OF THE WHITE-TAILED DEER 83 
species of the entire Deer Family. Give it suitable ground 
and full protection, and there is no limit to its increase. On 
Long Island, where deer-hunting is lawful on only four days 
a 
Photo. and copyright, 1902, by W. L. Underwood. 
YOUNG WHITE-TAILED DEER. 
Showing the conspicuous appearance of the tail when 
held erect. 
of each year, the animals are increasing with surprising 
rapidity. 
In the northern portions of its range from Minnesota 
to the Adirondacks, where it attains its most perfect develop- 
ment, it is next in size to the mule deer, or Rocky Mountain 
