. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and charcteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. y [it sy. 0 \A THE COUGAR. ^ Bt W. a. Peukv ("Sillaliccm"). ^HIS animal has the distinction of being called a number of names. Like the African Lion, he is a ferocious brute, almost similar to that animal in color, and has the same trait of instantly killing his prey. He wjis originally, and still is in some localities, called the American Lio
. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and charcteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. y [it sy. 0 \A THE COUGAR. ^ Bt W. a. Peukv ("Sillaliccm"). ^HIS animal has the distinction of being called a number of names. Like the African Lion, he is a ferocious brute, almost similar to that animal in color, and has the same trait of instantly killing his prey. He wjis originally, and still is in some localities, called the American Lion. Among the i)eople in the West- ern States it was formerly called the Panther, and by com- mon custom this name degenerated into "; In New England it was sometimes called the Catamount. The French in the early settlement of Louisiana called it Cougar, and some of their naturalists, eager to make a little notoriety, gave it the name of Carcajou, which really belongs to the Glutton. Others called it by the outlandish, unpronounceable name of Gouazoura, and if they could have found a worae name they would doubtless have applied it to this much-named creature. By the title of Puma, given to it by the South Americans, and by the names of California Lion and Mountain Lion, it is generally known in the United States. This animal is similar in shape to the Mustela, its body being long and slender, the legs short and stout. The head is small when compared with the body, and is always carried high. He is a rather proud chap, is our Cougar. His color is silvery fawn, sometimes approaching to red on the upper part of the body, the tawny hairs of the upper parts being whitish at the tips. The belly and inside of the legs are almost white, the head black and gray iiTegularly mixed. The female is colored like the male. The Cougar varies in length from eight and one-half to eleven feet, from point of nose to tip of ; C406). Please note that these images are extra
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