D. Strong 1925 (Copy) Mule deer. him watching all the way. When we got there he had disappeared! We found faint blood stains but no trail, it was like magic, and left even Manuel bewildered. We hunted high and low with no results. Continued and came over a ridge when a big deer broke cover close to us. As it was a doe I didn't shoot and she ran about 400 yds. off and almost hidden watched us from the brush. Manuel said "dos chiquitos aqui" -- and I began to squeak like a fawn with a bad attack of colic. The doe stepped out of the brush, stamped, jerked her tail and came bounding stiff-legged right at us! She came within 25 yds. of where we sat -- a beautiful sight! She was in full red summer pelage, her whole rump white, the tail black on the tip and white above, thinner above the tip. Quite plainly a ♀ mule deer, the ears more enormous and black. She stamped and whistled in a nervous manner. Manuel threw a rock at her and she bound ed off in the typical bouncing stiff-legged gait, tail thrown high. The under parts are gray. I called her back again and she came at a run. After a brief, but unsuccessful search for the "dos chiquitos" we went on leaving her nervously grazing about 400 yds. away. Evidently the Mule deer are found lower in these dry brushy hillsides, for I am quite sure that the deer collected above in the pines are blacktail species. Some Mule deer were seen up in the Mts. also, and I 187