. Frank Forester's field sports of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Game and game-birds; Hunting; Gibier; Chasse. WESTERN WILD SP0RT3. 173 Professor Emmons observes. • It is only a few years since this animal appeared in the northern parts of Vermont and New Hampshire, from which it is not unreasonable to infer, that - earlier times it may have passed still farther south.' Its grega- rious habits, and unsuspicious character, would seem to ensure Its speedy destruction, when placed within the range of ;— DeKay's Natural History of New- York. I h THE
. Frank Forester's field sports of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Game and game-birds; Hunting; Gibier; Chasse. WESTERN WILD SP0RT3. 173 Professor Emmons observes. • It is only a few years since this animal appeared in the northern parts of Vermont and New Hampshire, from which it is not unreasonable to infer, that - earlier times it may have passed still farther south.' Its grega- rious habits, and unsuspicious character, would seem to ensure Its speedy destruction, when placed within the range of ;— DeKay's Natural History of New- York. I h THE AMERICAN DEER. CERVUS VIRGINIANUS. Dama Virginiana; Ray, Lyn. Quad. p. 86. Cervn, VirginU anus; Harlan, Fauna Amer. p. 239; Godman, Am. Nat Hist. vol. li., p. 306. Mazama Id; Hamilton Smith, Griffith's Cuv. vol iv., p. 127. and vol. v. p. 315. Cervus (Mafama) Mexicanuset Claratus; Hamilton Smith, ih., p. 315. Fallow Deer; Emmons, Mass. Reports, 1840, p. 81. " or bluish gray, according to the season Young, spotted with white ; horns moderate, curving forward, with the concave part in front, with from one to six pomts, occasionally palmated. "^d long and slender; muzzle pointed ; eyes large and lustrous, the lachrymal pits consisting of a slight fold ottheskm; tail moderate, depressed ; legs slender; a glandu- ar pouch concoaled by a thick tuft of rigid hairs inside of the bind egs, odoriferous, and connected with the sexular appetite The horns of the adult male vary so much in shape, that scarcely any two are alike, appearing to depend upon age, sea- son, and abundance or scarcity of food. In the first season they are simple, cylindrical, and pointed, and in this state they are known as Spike Bucks; in the following season they have a short straight amler, and the number increases until the fourth season, when the following is the most usual condition of the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images
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