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  • Feb. [February] 4, 1940 Victoria Food. The old buck taken Jan [January] 31 at Cowichan Lake fed for about two hours on herbacious ground vegetation, mostly Hieraceum [Hieracium] but its stomach was 2/3 full of fir + salal. From this consideration it would seem that observations of food in deer minutes may give an enormous idea of actual food taken. All other deer watched today fed almost exclusively upon the same fresh herbaceous growth, but [word crossed out] only some 15-20 minutes were spent feeding on salal, berberis + arbutus. Behaviour: [underlined] when jumped suddenly from their beds without having seen + smelled one a single deer will run a few yards then stop + look back. Several deer will make a preliminary dash in which each deer follows an independent route from its bed. Stop for their look + if the object
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