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blacktail(ed) deer

• the mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus, of western North America, or its smaller relative of the Rocky Mountain region, O. hemionus columbianus, the Columbia blacktailed deer.

  See also: Columbia(n) blacktailed deer  

  • 1858  (1965)  Our Stoney hunter shot a blacktail deer today.
  • 1887  There is just the black tailed deer, the white tailed deer, and the antelope. . . .
  • 1958  The mule deer and black-tailed deer . . . because of the difference in their size and colour, were once thought to be distinct species.