. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . CHAPTER LVIIL HUNTING THE COUGAR.—HUNTING SQUIRRELS. O OTHER animal of the cat kind is so formidable as the Cougar. Ilis found in North America. The Cougar is sometimes im-properly called Panther. It isthe largest animal of the cat kindfound in North America, and hasoccasionally received the name of;merican lion, from the similarityf its proportion and color to theT may be stated to be about one- has no mane nor tuft at the ex-half the length of the body andclothed with a soft and closea brownish yellow color, or a. occasional patches of a rather- markable i
. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . CHAPTER LVIIL HUNTING THE COUGAR.—HUNTING SQUIRRELS. O OTHER animal of the cat kind is so formidable as the Cougar. Ilis found in North America. The Cougar is sometimes im-properly called Panther. It isthe largest animal of the cat kindfound in North America, and hasoccasionally received the name of;merican lion, from the similarityf its proportion and color to theT may be stated to be about one- has no mane nor tuft at the ex-half the length of the body andclothed with a soft and closea brownish yellow color, or a. occasional patches of a rather- markable in certain lights, andhe individual. A dark red ii. lion of the old world. The couthird less in size than the lion,£ «tremity of the tail, which is aboihead. The skin of this animalhair over the hmbs and body,mixture of red and blackish, wideep reddish tint, which are onlydisappear entirely with the age o 358- HUNTING ADVENTURES. spread over the upper parts, produced by the tips of the k r,which is black at the base. The head has a great many gwiyhairs upon it; the whiskers are white, and rise in a blackish spa^e. At an early period the cougar was distributed in considerable num-bers over the whole of the warm and temperate regions of this conti-nent, and is still found, though not abundantly, in the southern,middle, and northwestern parts of the Union. It is a savage anddestructive animal, yet timid ar^d cautious. It climbs, or rather,springs up large trees with surprising facility, and in that wayis enabled, by dropping suddenly upon deer and other quadru-peds, to secure prey which it would be impossible for them toovertake. The co
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