black-tailed deer

[ blak-teyld ]

/ ˈblækˌteɪld /

a variety of mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus columbianus, of the western slope of the Rocky Mountains, having a tail that is black above.

Also blacktail deer

[blak-teyl] /ˈblækˌteɪl/.

Also called black·tail.

Origin of black-tailed deer

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10

He began his work at sunrise the next morning and it was toward evening when Crestwick came back exultant with a blacktail buck.

The Long Portage |Harold Bindloss
And to this day my fair companion has not seen the Blacktail bounding up the hills.

Wild Animals at Home |Ernest Thompson Seton
A dozen years ago probably twenty blacktail were killed for every one whitetail; now the numbers are about equal.

Hunting in Many Lands |Various
The buffalo fairly swarmed, and elk and antelope and bighorn sheep and blacktail deer were all around them all the time.

The Young Alaskans on the Missouri |Emerson Hough

It is commonly called "blacktail," but the true blacktail is a similar but smaller species confined to the Northern Pacific coast.

The Animal World, A Book of Natural History |Theodore Wood

blacktail

/ (ˈblækˌteɪl) /

a variety of mule deer having a black tail