Abstract
Little has been published concerning the plants eaten by the Coues white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus Couesi) in the Southwest. Nichol (1938) conducted a penfeeding study of white-tailed deer in the Santa Rita Mountains of southern Arizona in which he tested the palatability of 168 species of native browse plants, forbs, and grasses. These tests showed that shrubs comprised a dependable and substantial part of the deer diet, but that trees, grasses, and annual plants were also important. From these experiments Nichol concluded that shrubby buckwheat (Eriogonum Wrightii) was the most important single shrub in the diet of the white-tailed deer.
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