. Big game hunting in Africa and other lands; the appearance, habits, traits of character and every detail of wild animal life ... Hunting -- Africa; Animal behavior. THE STORY OF THE MOUNTAIN LION. Many a young hunter in the Rocky Mountains has been startled out of a sound sleep by a wild, unearthly cry unlike any other sound of the forest. "What's that?" he would ask, listening to catch a repetition of the .sound. "Go to sleep,"' replies the old hunter, who is his companion; "that's only a painter,—what most people call a mountain lion. They won't bother us; go to sl
. Big game hunting in Africa and other lands; the appearance, habits, traits of character and every detail of wild animal life ... Hunting -- Africa; Animal behavior. THE STORY OF THE MOUNTAIN LION. Many a young hunter in the Rocky Mountains has been startled out of a sound sleep by a wild, unearthly cry unlike any other sound of the forest. "What's that?" he would ask, listening to catch a repetition of the .sound. "Go to sleep,"' replies the old hunter, who is his companion; "that's only a painter,—what most people call a mountain lion. They won't bother us; go to ; The mountain lion is the largest representative of the cat family in Amer- ica. It is often called the panther, a word the old-time hunters corrupted into painter. Some works on natural history give it the name of cougar, but I prefer the name given it by the Peruvians—Puma, which has been adopted by all American zoologists. In regard to the dimensions of the puma, it is stated that a male preserved in the museum at Washington has a total length (measured along the curves of the body) oi 6 feet 7| inches, of which 2 feet 2I inches are occupied by the tail. A large male killed in Arizona measured 7 feet in total length, of which 3 feet was occupied by the tail; while a smaller male from the same locality had a total length of only 6 feet, of which the tail took up i foot 11 inches. The largest individual of which the measurements can be regarded as authen- 127. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lundeberg, Axel; Seymour, Frederick H. A. [Chicago, D. B. McCurdy
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