. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 188 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME restricted to the dry desert washes and Chocolate Mountains of north- eastern Imperial County and to the eastern portion of Riverside County (see distribution map). The California mule deer, in my experience, ranges from the American River south along the western slope of the Sierra Nevada to Tehachapi Pass and thence westward past Mount Pinos, to and includ- ing the Santa Inez, San Gabriel, and San Bernar
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 188 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME restricted to the dry desert washes and Chocolate Mountains of north- eastern Imperial County and to the eastern portion of Riverside County (see distribution map). The California mule deer, in my experience, ranges from the American River south along the western slope of the Sierra Nevada to Tehachapi Pass and thence westward past Mount Pinos, to and includ- ing the Santa Inez, San Gabriel, and San Bernardino Mountains. The southern mule deer occurs in California in the San Jacinto, Trabuco, Palomar, and Cuyumaca Mountains in San Diego, western Riverside, and southeastern Orange counties (see distribution map). There has been much recent discussion regarding hybrids of both Rocky Moun- tain mule deer and California mule deer with Columbian black-tailed deer. Limited space prevents full discussion of this interrelation, but I have personally exam- ined a number of such hybrid specimens from the Shasta, Lassen, and Yosemite areas. As early as 1927, I discovered, and demonstrated by photographs (see Fig. 48), the presence of coast black-tailed deer and hybrids in Yosemite Valley, where only mule deer were reported to exist. A few years later I was able, through Nordquist, to retrieve and to preserve such a specimen from near Wawona, Mariposa County. On February 12, 1032, three miles east of Jackson, Amador County, I examined the hide and other remains of a Colum- bian black-tailed buck that had been killed at that locality late the previous fall. Both the tail, which was entirely intact, having been left unskinned, and the metatarsal gland of the hind leg were clearly characteristic of a Columbian black-tailed deer. From this and from dead deer which I examined on the Stan- islaiis National Forest during the foot-and-mouth epizootic, I am con- vinced that the range of the Columbi
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