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was very difificult to capture owing to the swiftness of its flight and 
color resemblance to the ground. 
The remaining butterflies taken were : 
Pyrameis cardui Linn. Papilio eurymedon Boisd. 
Limenitis lorquini Boisd. P. rutulus Boisd. 
Terias nicippee Linn. Anthocharis australis Grinnell 
C. harfordii, var. barbora Hy. Edw. A. sara, var. reakirtii Edw. 
Colias eurytheme, var. keezmydin Edw. 
C. L. EOX, 
San Francisco, California. 
THE CONSERVATION OF THE CALIFORNIA DEER 
There is a movement at present being started to close the deer 
hunting season in California. This is a very worthy object and one 
which should be generally encouraged and supported by those inter- 
ested in the prevention of the extermination of our most beautiful 
wild animal. 
The passing of the bison and the passenger pigeon are well 
known themes dwelt upon at great length by advocates of game con- 
servation. Still the lesson can never be learned too well and while 
under our present laws such disgraceful and criminal slaughter would 
be impossible, yet we are too prone to delay the needed legislation to 
avoid this same fate on the part of our game birds and animals. 
It is only natural that the deer should recede before the advance 
of civilization, but the automobile gives such quick access to distant 
points, and renders the long trip of a decade ago to one of but a 
few^ hours now, that slowly but surely the deer are being driven into 
the most inaccessible parts of the mountains. 
Old-timers have told the writer about shooting deer in the hills 
surrounding the present site of Inglewood and the writer has seen a 
small doe feeding within a few hundred yards of the Santa Monica 
car line, a mile or two west of Hollywood, when that road was first 
constructed. 
Dana records that in 1837 the hills of the present Golden Gate 
Park were fairly alive with deer that fearlessly stood and watched 
the sailing vessels passing through the Gate and that everywhere in 
California deer were m abundance. 
The ever increasing number of hunters and the modern high 
