the white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus.
- 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  (1908)  . . . 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.