. The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. rylong, bushy, wedge-shaped tail, which is snowy-white under-neath and also on the edges. When the animal is alarmed,and running away, this white brush is held stiffly aloft, andwith every stride of the bearer, it sways from side to side, ina startling and highly conspicuous manner. While the pe-culiar mixed gray color of the pelage makes it difficult to seethis animal in brushy surroundings, the moment the creaturestarts to run, its white flag waves as if purposely invitingbullets, and in
. The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. rylong, bushy, wedge-shaped tail, which is snowy-white under-neath and also on the edges. When the animal is alarmed,and running away, this white brush is held stiffly aloft, andwith every stride of the bearer, it sways from side to side, ina startling and highly conspicuous manner. While the pe-culiar mixed gray color of the pelage makes it difficult to seethis animal in brushy surroundings, the moment the creaturestarts to run, its white flag waves as if purposely invitingbullets, and in total defiance of all the laws of protectivecoloration among animals. Indeed, so very flag-like is this 0-do-coUe-iis sit-kensis. ^ Oducuilcuts vir-yin-i-anus. VARIATIONS OF THE WHITE-TAILED DEER 79 creatures waving tail that in the West many hunters call itthe Flag-Tailed Deer. There are two points in which this deer differs from allothers and by which it can easily be recognized. 1. Its antlers rise a short distance from the forehead, thensuddenly drop forward, with the beam almost horizontal, and. TAILS OP AMERICAN DEER. 1. Columbian Black-Tail. 2. Mule Deer. 3. While-Tailed, or Virginia Deer. (Small spetimen.) from the beam three long, sharp tines rise perpendicularly. Theantlers of nearly all other deer point backward as they rise. 2. The tail is very long, pointed at the end, bushy near thebody and white underneath, as described above. The AVhite-Tailcd Deer is the best known of all our hoofedanimals except the l)uffalo, because it is the one most widelydistributed and has been the longest known. Generally 80 HOOFED ANIMALS speaking, it is a United States species, for it inhabits at leasta portion of every state and territory save Delaware, Oregon,Nevada, California and Arizona. To-day it is most abundantin the Adirondacks, Maine, Vermont, northern Minnesotaand Michigan. Closely related forms of White-Tailed Deerare fairly abundant in Florida, on the lower Rio Grandeand
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