. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . Lycopodium obscurum. Lycopodium clavatum. to gray in winter. For food he has young twigs—those of the black birch he especially relishes—thefoliage of the arbor vitse (Thuja occidentalis)* hem-lock, and fir; digging through the snow with his * The margins of some of the Adirondack lakes are thicklyoverhung with the branches of the arbor vitae; these are oftenstripped off for a distance of five feet up the trunks of the trees,the result of the feeding of deer which have wintered in the YOUNG DEER. CARI
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . Lycopodium obscurum. Lycopodium clavatum. to gray in winter. For food he has young twigs—those of the black birch he especially relishes—thefoliage of the arbor vitse (Thuja occidentalis)* hem-lock, and fir; digging through the snow with his * The margins of some of the Adirondack lakes are thicklyoverhung with the branches of the arbor vitae; these are oftenstripped off for a distance of five feet up the trunks of the trees,the result of the feeding of deer which have wintered in the YOUNG DEER. CARIACUS VIRGINIANUS, OR ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS. He works his way toward the shore of the lake. Photographed from nature by W. Lyman Underwood. A FLEET-FOOTED NEIGHBOR IN THE WOODS. 233 hoofs he feeds upon the wintergreen (Gaultheriaprocumbens), the lycopodiums, and many other greentilings, like mosses and lichens. Early in the springhe gradually works his way toward the shores of thelakes, and finds there pickerel weed, lily pads, andspatter-dock ; as the season advances he approachesthe outskirts of civilization and crops thenew meadow grasses near the farms ; heeven ventures as far as the pasture bars,not infrequently feeding in company with
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