. Life-histories of northern animals [microform] : an account of the mammals of Manitoba. Mammals; Mammals; Mammifères; Mammifères. Whitctailcd Deer 69. a. Mâl^ft hind l«ff of Mul«<dMr (t), Coatt Vâr {t\ â nJ Whiiatail <3). to ihw ih« tix« of ih« matatarM] yUndb, rMp«ciiv«ly, s, i, and i inch iMig. Virginian Deer, 2 inches in the Coast Deer, and about 5 in the Mule-deer. The tails also are very distinctive, as will be seen on reference to Fig. 17. The Northern White- tail is much larger than the typical form from Virginia, being nearly double the weight of the latter; the Whitet
. Life-histories of northern animals [microform] : an account of the mammals of Manitoba. Mammals; Mammals; Mammifères; Mammifères. Whitctailcd Deer 69. a. Mâl^ft hind l«ff of Mul«<dMr (t), Coatt Vâr {t\ â nJ Whiiatail <3). to ihw ih« tix« of ih« matatarM] yUndb, rMp«ciiv«ly, s, i, and i inch iMig. Virginian Deer, 2 inches in the Coast Deer, and about 5 in the Mule-deer. The tails also are very distinctive, as will be seen on reference to Fig. 17. The Northern White- tail is much larger than the typical form from Virginia, being nearly double the weight of the latter; the Whitetail group present, in- deed, a complete gradation of size from the pygmy Aca- pulco Deer found in Mexico, or the Florida Deer a little larger, to the giant form of Maine and Manitoba. Caton considered the Acapulco Deer the smallest of the North American species. None of the specimens he had weighed over thirty or forty pounds.' Bucks of the Florida Deer are commonly said to be about eighty pounds o ninety pounds, and, ac- cording to Cory,* not often over no pounds. The does are proportion- ately less in weight. A fine aduit male of the Northern form (No. 104891 size U. S. N. M.), killed November 15,1900, near Floodwood on the St. Louis River, sixty miles west of Duluth, Minn., I measured in the flesh, as follows: Length, 6 feet 5} inches (1,970 mm.); tail, 11} inches 'Antelope atd Deer of America, 1877, p. tat. *C. B. Cory, Hunting and FUhing in Florida, 1806, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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