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  • Goldstream Lake. Aug [August] 16, 1940. Census + behaviour. Very hot day in the sun but a breeze kept the shaded areas cool. I did not enter the area until 10 AM at which time all deer were bedded + the Tabanids were most active. Put up 2 does + 1 fawn from the edge of a small swampy meadow adjoining Mavis Lake They scented me before jumping but then waited until they saw me + went off across the swamp on the jump - tails up. These deer were bedded under the upturned roots of a stump. where the dust was thick + the temperature just 52, 10 degrees lower than the shade temperature. away from the tree-margined meadow Though tabanids were abundant in the sun over the meadow + made rapid flights through the shaded margins none of them were entering the shaded beds. At 11 A.M. saw a large buck lying in the shade of a log right out in the open mud flat of Mavis Lake. I had been in
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