. Our big game; a book for sportsmen and nature lovers . llwooded areas chiefly in the Southwest and in Mexico. The bob-cat, like his larger cousin, the cougar, is apredatory flesh-eater. He prowls about the forestsafter birds, rabbits, squirrels and other small ani-mals and is, in turn, chased by coyotes and wolves,just as the domestic descendants of the latter chasecommon house cats on sight. The long practice whichwolves have had in chasing and treeing wild-cats has,no doubt, given rise to the passionate love for catchasing which is noticeable in all dogs, great and small,and which is of th
. Our big game; a book for sportsmen and nature lovers . llwooded areas chiefly in the Southwest and in Mexico. The bob-cat, like his larger cousin, the cougar, is apredatory flesh-eater. He prowls about the forestsafter birds, rabbits, squirrels and other small ani-mals and is, in turn, chased by coyotes and wolves,just as the domestic descendants of the latter chasecommon house cats on sight. The long practice whichwolves have had in chasing and treeing wild-cats has,no doubt, given rise to the passionate love for catchasing which is noticeable in all dogs, great and small,and which is of the utmost advantage to the sports-man who would hunt cougars or bob-cats. In shape and general appearance the wild-cat is verymuch like a great big domestic cat, varying in colorfrom the grayer Northern species through the reddishkind to the most Southern spotted variety, there beingall sorts of intermediate cats, showing shades of trans-ition between the three principal kinds. Anyone who has observed the common house cat * The Standard Natural A 1,\NX, ()1< THE LYNX 317 stealthily moving 011 a mouse, or sneaking throughthe grass, or moving out on the limb of a tree in theorchard, with crouching form, frequently remainingmotionless, then putting down its velvet feet slowlyand noiselessly, until at last it springs upon a bird—anyone, I say, who has observed these performanceswill have a ver}^ good idea of how the wild-cat manoeu-vres in the woods. It is extremely strong and agile,and has been seen to spring into the air and strikedown a flying bird. It is a natural-born hunter, andis especially fond of rabbits; and so is the house knew one that was harbored at a hotel in the Ken-tucky highlands, which used to slip out into the gardenafter birds; and one day I saw it bring in a rabbitalmost as big as itself, and sneak under the porch toserve it to its kittens. Wild-cats, like tame cats, de-spise dogs. They will always ** spit at a dog on sight—th
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