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JESimpson,
1938.
Odocoileus couesi
2400±ft., Sierra de Mazatan (E. slope), 6 mi. N. Nacori, Sonora.
May 20, 1938.
Picked up skull (399) only from post-rotten,
much-scattered carcus of small white-tail among
granite rocks in grass, heavy brush, and trees.
A mile± south of above-mentioned mt. slope
in dry-grass glade was surprised (missed three shots)
by three antlerless white-tails — large (100±lbs) and
a medium (75±lbs.) together and a small (50±lbs.)
one 20 yards from pair. They ran swiftly and
smoothly without the high bounding run of the
black-tails of California. The light tan color blend-
ed well into the dry-yellow-grass ground-color.
On the way to the mountain an hour or so
earlier (about dawn) caught a brief glimpse and a
tail flash of a deer in the jungle-brush of the
foothills.
(cf. General Notes (account) pp. 79-80 for notes
of Mexican farmer method of deer control.)