WHITE-TAILED DOE WALKING
This track differs from that of the buck in being smaller, slimmer, and in having the toes pointing forward or inward—rarely outward.
ELK
This shows the track of a large male walking. Each hoof-mark is about 4½ inches long. Had it been five inches it would have meant a very large bull. The track is strictly deer-like in type, but has a little of the roundness of point that is so marked in the domestic cow. At the upper end of the drawing is snow one inch deep. Here no clouts show; at the lower end it is three inches deep, so the clout-marks are clear. Size is essential in distinguishing the track. The dung pellets, about ⅝ × ⅛ inch, are also important.
MULE DEER
The mule deer tread cannot be distinguished with certainty from that of white-tailed or coast deer; yet it averages larger than either of these, and the curious close set together of all four feet while it does its peculiar bounding is quite unlike what we see in the white-tail track. “These deer are not good runners in the open. On level country in Arizona I have ridden after and readily overtaken parties of them within a mile. The moment rough country was reached, however, with amazing celerity a series of mighty leaps carries them away” ([see page 456]).
GRIZZLY BEAR