Whitetail deer are frequently found at home in the same thicket in which a bear has its den, while they immediately desert the temporary abiding place of a wolf or cougar.
Next to the whitetaildeer the black bear is the commonest and most widely distributed of American big game.
On two or three occasions we killed whitetail deer, and several times antelope.
The only thing killed had been a whitetail fawn, which Lambert had knocked over by a very pretty shot as we were riding through a long, heavily-timbered bottom.
Four men in stalwart health and taking much outdoor exercise have large appetites, and the flesh of the whitetail was almost gone.
In 1894, on the last day I spent at the ranch, and with the last bullet I fired from my rifle, I killed a fine whitetail buck.
Whitetail I have killed at shorter range; but the shots were generally running, often taken under difficult circumstances, so that my expenditure of cartridges was rather larger.
While at the ranch house itself, I rely for venison upon shooting either blacktail in the broken country away from the river, or else whitetail in the river bottoms.
Whitetail were never as numerous as the other game, but they have held their own well.
Whitetail Deer (Odocoileus virginianus macrourus) A few found about Gardiner, on Willow Creek, on Indian Creek, at Crevasse Mt.
These tails are black underneath, instead of white as in our whitetail deer.
One of the party shot a bush deer--a very pretty, graceful creature, smaller than our whitetail deer, but kin to it and doubtless the southernmost representative of the whitetail group.
The whitetail, in one of its forms, and with the ordinary whitetail custom of displaying the white flag as it runs, is found in the immediate neighborhood of the swamp-deer.
It was the same stone wall in which Johnny Chuck had escaped from old Whitetail the Marshhawk, when Johnny was a very little fellow.
But foolish Johnny Chuck really thought that old Whitetailwas afraid of him.
Indeed, it seemed to Johnny that old Whitetail actually grinned and winked at him.
Of course old Whitetail hadn't really been afraid of Johnny Chuck.
Then he thought of old Whitetail the Marshhawk, who had given him such a fright and had so nearly caught him when he was a little fellow.
He pointed out old Whitetail the Marshhawk, sailing back and forth over the meadows, and told them how once, when he was a little Chuck and had run away from home, old Whitetail had nearly caught him.
He had simply passed Johnny with a wink, because there was plenty to eat without the trouble of fighting, and Whitetail doesn't fight just for the fun of it.
The thought made him look around hastily, and there was old Whitetail himself, sailing back and forth hungrily just ahead of him.
Old Whitetail the Marsh Hawk spied Danny sitting there moping on his doorstep, and came sailing over the tops of the meadow grasses so softly that he all but caught Danny.
He was almost sure that Old Whitetail was waiting just outside to gobble him up.
Old Whitetail is down here and he's headed this way.
The Virginia, or whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is the common deer of the United States.
The whitetail deer has often been the subject of experiments in domestication.
In view of the wide natural range of the whitetail deer, its adaptability to nearly all sections of the United States can not be doubted.
But oldWhitetail has a great deal of persistence, and in spite of his bad luck, he kept at his hunting, back and forth, back and forth, until he had been all over the Green Meadows.
Anyway, little Mr. Green Snake seemed to know that Whitetail was out hunting and managed to keep out of sight.
His sharp eyes peered down among the grasses, looking for something to eat, but some good fairy seemed to have warned the very little people who live there that Whitetail was out hunting.
Of course Whitetail saw this, and it made him almost chuckle aloud.
This had made old Whitetail angrier than ever, and then to be called bad names--robber and thief!
Now old Whitetail was just as hungry as Longlegs, and he had come even nearer to catching Grandfather Frog.
Then, slowly and painfully, old Whitetailflew away over the Green Meadows, and with torn and ragged wings, Longlegs flew heavily down the Laughing Brook towards the Big River, and both were sore and stiff and still hungry.
Now, with all his keen sight, old Whitetail had failed to see some one else who was sitting right in plain sight.
Grandfather Frog dived head first into the Smiling Pool, and so close was old Whitetail that the water was splashed right in his face.
Almost every day he was off among the buttes or across the prairie with a rifle in his hand, shooting now a whitetail buck within a few hundred yards of the ranch-house; now a blacktail, in the hills behind.
You can watch the whitetail deer drift through the forest in a silence as perfect and ethereal as song, watching you but expressing no fear.
Shaggy mountain-mahogany and fragrant sumac make excellent feed for whitetail deer.
Isolation allowed this sub-species of whitetail to develop.
As climate continues drying here, these denizens of the desert range ever higher into the Chisos Mountains, sole homeland in the United States for the Sierra del Carmen whitetail deer.
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