84 HOOFED ANIMALS 
“black-tail,” and is really a fine animal. A large buck stands 
36 inches high at the shoulders, is 53 inches in length of head 
and body, its tail is 7 inches long to the end of the vertebrae, 
and 5 inches more to the end of the hair. A fairly large 
pair of antlers from central Montana are 231% inches in length 
from burr to tip of beam, spread 18 inches and have 13 points. 
A heavy Maine buck is reported to have weighed, before 
being dressed, 278 pounds. 
Usually but one fawn is born each year, in May, which 
at birth is beautifully spotted, stands 1514 inches high and 
weighs 414 pounds. 
Let it not be supposed, however, that in the South the 
White-Tailed Deer of the North necessarily becomes a small 
or inferior animal. A collection of more than one hundred 
pairs of antlers from Texas, recently inspected by the writer, 
contained a surprisingly high percentage of large and heavy 
specimens, fully equal in length, spread and weight to the best 
examples from Montana, Minnesota and Maine. 
Witp Game As A SourcE OF REvENUE.—AII persons who 
pay state taxes in states or territories in which ‘“‘big game” 
and game fishes are found, will do well to bear in mind that 
under certain conditions wild animal life can be made an 
important and legitimate source of revenue. The United 
States Supreme Court has decided (Ward vs. Race Horse, 
163 U.S. 507) that all wild game on unoccupied lands is the 
property of the state, and that even the National Government 
may not, either by treaty with Indians or in any other man- 
ner save actual sequestration, convey any rights or privileges 
affecting it adversely. 
