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extinct in many parts of the country, but in the monte along 
the Uruguay River it is stl found. An estanciero living at 
Cordova in Argentina tells me he had seen both Pumas and 
Jaguars coming down the big river on tree-trunks. In this 
way stray examples might very well turn up in a district long 
after the native breed was extinct. I heard that it was still 
found, although very rarely, in the monfe of the Rio Negro on 
that part of the coast of the river which I visited in the Depart- 
ment of that name; but all I could hear of it in South Soriano 
was a report that one had been seen on the Arroyo de Monzon 
some years ago.” 
On the pampas of Argentina where it was formerly very 
numerous, it is now extremely scarce, although more common 
in the wooded chaco-country of the interior. On the Rio 
Negro, in Upper Patagonia, Mr. Hudson states that a few years 
ago they infested the settlements. ‘ At all seasons a few of 
these sly but withal audacious robbers haunt the river-side ; 
but in winter a great many lean and hungry individuals come 
down from the uplands to slay the Sheep and Horses, and it is 
extremely difficult to track them to their hiding-places in the 
thorny thickets overhanging the valley. I was told that not les: 
than a hundred Pumas were killed annually by the shepherds 
and herdsmen.” Further south they appear even at the pre- 
sent day to be equally numerous. 3 
Habits.—As the Jaguar in South America has usurped the 
name of the Tiger, so the Puma is commonly called by Euro- 
peans in the same country the Lion (Zeon of the Spanish), 
although the natives always call it by its proper name of Puma, 
in which, by the way, the w~ should be pronounced as goo. 
Although frequently termed in the States the American Lion, 
the animal is there more commonly known as the Panther, 
generally corrupted into “painter”; although the native Indian 
name “‘ Cougar” is likewise in common use, When the natural 
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