THE LIFE OF MAMMALS 
In the southern states, as appears from Dr. Bachman’s 
extensive and eloquent biography,®® it cares less for water, 
though everywhere it is compelled to make its abode where 
water may easily be obtained. 
“In winter,” he informs us, ‘‘it feeds on buds of several kinds of shrubs, 
such as the wild rose, the hawthorn, various species of bramble, the winter- 
Winter green, the partridge berry, the deer leaf (Hopea tinctoria), 
Yards. the bush honeysuckle, and many others. In spring and sum- 
mer it subsists on tender grasses, being very select in its choice and dainty 
in its taste. At this season it frequently leaps fences and visits the fields 
of the planter, taking an occasional bite at his young wheat and oats, not 
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“ NURSING THE VELVET-COVERED HOkNs.” 
overlooking the green corn, and giving a decided preference to a field 
planted with cow peas, which it divests of its young pods and tender leaves. 
In autumn it finds an abundance of very choice food in the chestnuts, 
chinquapins, and beechnuts strewn over the ground. ... We once ob- 
served three deer feeding on acorns, surrounded by a flock of wild turkeys, 
all eagerly engaged in claiming their share. The fruit of the persimmon 
tree, after having been ripened by the frosts of winter, falls to the ground 
and also becomes a favorite food of the deer. 
“The deer is one of the most silent of animals, and scarcely possesses 
any notes of recognition. The fawn has a gentle bleat that might be heard 
by the keen ears of its mother at the distance probably of a hundred yards, 
We have never heard the voice of the female beyond a mere murmur when 
calling for her young, except when shot, when she often bleats loudly like 
a calf in pain. The buck when suddenly startled sometimes utters a snort, 
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