DCHP-3

Virginia(n) deer

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus.

Quotations

1784
A plain . . . swarming with . . . Stags and Virginian Deer ... occupies an amazing tract, from the great lakes of Canada, as low as the gulph of Mexico.
1888
. . . the third shows the southern limit of the feeding-ground of the musk ox and the reindeer, the northern range of the wolverine, otter, beaver, black bear, and Virginia deer ....
1958
Its spike antlers were in the swollen velvet of summer, arched forward to identify it as a "Virginia" or white-tailed deer.