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are no wild deer; or in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, 
Tennessee or Kentucky. The long close seasons in Massa- 
chusetts, Connecticut and southern New York have caused a 
THE WHITE-TAILED DEER AS A FOOD SUPPLY. 
But the killing of the females was totally wrong. 
great migration of deer into those once-depopulated regions 
—in fact, right down to tide-water. 
Tue Mute Derer.—The number of sportsmen who have 
hunted and killed this fine animal in its own wild and pic- 
turesque bad lands is indeed quite small. It has been four- 
fifths exterminated by the resident hunter and ranchman, 
and to-day is found in the Rocky Mountain region most 
sparingly. Ten years ago it seemed right to hunt the so- 
called Rocky Mountain “‘black-tail” in northwestern Mon- 
