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A REPRESENTATIVE FAMILY OF WHITE-TAILED DEER 
These were tame deer—to the photographers great advantage. The buck boasts a better pair of antlers than is usual with 
his wild brethren of the North—due in the main to an ample food supply the year round and shelter from storms 
the blacktail or the Newfoundland caribou, 
rarely succeeds in organizing a herd of 
does in the mating season. The densely 
wooded nature of the country will not 
permit it. He must search out his mates 
consecutively, and each individual doe is 
followed persistently by scent. Sometimes 
two or three bucks will be strung out in 
succession, following the same trail. Several 
years ago I was working along an old tote- 
road which led through densely wooded 
patches of second growth, when a hundred 
yards ahead a doe suddenly dashed across 
the road and as suddenly disappeared in 

