NOTES AND LITERATURE, 
ZOOLOGY. 
North American Deer. — The Deer Family! by Theodore Roose- 
velt and others, is a popular account of the deer found in North 
America, written by men eminently fitted by experience and personal 
knowledge to deal with the subject from the double viewpoint of 
the naturalist and sportsman. The first half of the book is by 
Mr. Roosevelt, who furnishes the introductory chapter (pp. 1-27), 
and treats of the mule deer, or Rocky Mountain blacktail (pp. 28-64), 
the whitetail deer (pp. 65-97), the pronghorn antelope (pp. 98-1 30), 
and the wapiti, or round-horned elk (pp. 131—164) ; Mr. Van Dyke 
writes of the deer and elk of the Pacific coast (pp. 167—191), 
Mr. Elliot of the caribou (pp. 257—287), and Mr. Stone of the moose 
(pp. 288—325). Mr. Roosevelt, through his many years of ranch 
life on the Little Missouri and his numerous protracted hunting trips 
in the great game regions of the West, writes not only from abundant 
opportunity for observing the habits of the animals, but with the 
sympathy and intelligence of a keen naturalist as well as an ardent 
Sportsman. 
In the introductory chapter reference is made to the misapplication 
of names * by all peoples of European descent who have gone into 
strange lands," not only in reference to some of our deer and prong- 
horn, but to other game animals and birds. The deer of North 
America are grossly classified as forming six kinds: ‘The moose, 
caribou, wapiti, whitetail, and the two blacktails," minor differences 
being very properly disregarded. Their geographical ranges and 
leading characteristics are briefly stated, with some comment on the 
€quipment required by the hunter of large game. 
There is reference also to “the most striking and melancholy 
feature in connection with American big game, — the rapidity with 
! Roosevelt, Theodore; Van Dyke, T. S.; Elliot, D. G.; and Stone, A. J. 
The Deer Family. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1902. 8vo, ix + 334 PP- 
10 illustrations by Rungius, 7 maps by C. Hart Merriam, and numerous half-tone 
cuts of antlers of moose and caribou. American Sportsman’s Library Series, 
edited by Caspar Whitney. 
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