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VIRGINIA OR WHITETAIL DEER This is the best known of all our hoofed ani ¬ mals because it is most widely distributed It is a forest animal but is often found in the brush grown legions of rivers throughout the Great Plains It derives its name from its long and wedged shaped bush tail which is snowwhite un ¬ derneath When alarmed and running away this white brush is held stiffly aloft This flaglike waving tail has given it the name of FlagTaileil Deer by many hunters especially in the west westThere There are two points in which this deer differs from all others and by which it is easily recog ¬ nized Its antlers rise a short distance from the forehead thiii suddenly drop forward The antlers if all other deer point backward as they rise An ¬ other difference is the pointed tail bush near tlie body and white underneath underneathThe The WhiteTailed Deer is a United States species for it inhabits at least a iwrtion of every state and territory wive Delaware Oregon Ne ¬ vada California and Arizona It is abundant in the AdirondHcks Maine Vermont northern Minne ¬ sota and Miehigiii Closely riIaUd forms of I WhiteTailed Deer e found in Florida cm tin lower Iii Jrande and in northeastern Washington WashingtonOf Of tin snbsjMLies is the dwarf Arizona White Tailed Deer and the Florida WhiteTailed Deer both small animals animalsIn In Canada the Virginia dter is culled the Red DetT and la tlie northern portions of its range from Minnesota the Adiromlacks where it at ¬ tains its largSt size it is next in sine to the Mule l eer or Hoeky Mountain Black Tail D er errV rV large Virginia deer buck stands 20 inches high it the shoulders body length r 3 inches and spread of antlers 18 inches A heavy Muiuu buck often weighs 75 youuds AU Outdoors
