. The big game of North America. Its habits, habitats, haunts, and characteristics; how, when, and where to hunt it .. . don the upper j)art of the body, the tawny hairs of the upperparts being whitish at the tips. The belly and inside of thelegs are almost white, the head black and gray irregularlymixed. The female is colored like the male. The Cougarvaries in length from eight and one-half to eleven feet, frompoint of nose to ti^) of tail. (405) 406 BIG GAME OF NOilTH AMERICA. The Cougar is tlie Tiger of the Occident, being the largestof the cat kind found in the northern part of the Western
. The big game of North America. Its habits, habitats, haunts, and characteristics; how, when, and where to hunt it .. . don the upper j)art of the body, the tawny hairs of the upperparts being whitish at the tips. The belly and inside of thelegs are almost white, the head black and gray irregularlymixed. The female is colored like the male. The Cougarvaries in length from eight and one-half to eleven feet, frompoint of nose to ti^) of tail. (405) 406 BIG GAME OF NOilTH AMERICA. The Cougar is tlie Tiger of the Occident, being the largestof the cat kind found in the northern part of the WesternHemisphere. His range extends from the Arctic Circle toPatagonia, but east of the Rocky Mountains he is alto-gether extirpated or extremely rare, except in the SouthernStates. It is yet abundant in Northern California, Oregon,Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska. It is especiallyabundant in Northern Washington, along the Skagit andNooksack Rivers, the abundance of Deer, grouse, rabbits,and fish in the streams, furnishing it with a never-failingsupply of food; and here it obtains its greatest developmentin ,-<*
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