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Title: California fish and game
Identifier: californiafishga13_1927cali (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc. ) State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game
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CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 2:5!) Remarks.—The particular subspecies occurring iu California is Odocoileus virginianus maorourus. The range of the species is more extensive than that of any other of our deer. It occurs throughout the eastern and southern states, throughout southern Canada except in western British Columbia, and in a con- siderable part of every western state except Nevada, Utah and California. It occasionally occurs in these three states. In the middle western states, the white- tailed deer has been largely exterminated. Two specimens have been taken in
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Fig. 57. Map showing distribution of various species of deer found in California. recent years in eastern Lassen County, one forming the first authentic record for the state. Hunters have suggested that the name whitetail is unfortunate. Most deer when startled, elevate the tail and thus display only the underside which is white ; accord- ingly, the mule and black-tailed deer appear to have white tails. The name, however, is descriptive since the upper side (see Figs 54, 55, 56) is white, relative to the same parts of the two other species.

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