rtd LLOYD’s NATURAL HISTORY. 
make a deep, lasting impression. ‘The different native names, 
as pronounced in SpaniePeound very appropriately to the 
note, and it is likely that the cry of the animal forms the 
base of its names. The note itself is often several times re- 
peated, with intervals of from two to four minutes. As night 
advances, the cry is heard but rarely.’ He also writes: ‘A 
Puma was killed on the Rio Brava, between Fort Duncan and 
Laredo. During his struggles with the hunters and Dogs he 
raised a terrible cry, twice or thrice, to express his rage, and 
perhaps also to give his family the notice of danger.’ Dr. J. 
A. Allen reports that he once heard the Puma’s cry near his 
camp in Montgomery, Colorado. Elliot likewise states that he 
heard the cry of the Puma at night, whilst camping on the St. 
John’s River, Florida. He did not, however, se> the animal.” 
Darwin writes that the Puma “‘is a very silent animal, utter- 
ing no cry, even when wounded, and only rarely during the 
breeding-season.” 
In captivity, the Puma, when pleased, purrs after the manner 
of the Domestic Cat ; and the female has been heard to utter 
a kind of mewing noise. The Puma is one of the most easily 
tamed of the Cat tribe, becoming not only perfectly harmless, 
but even much attached to its owner. A wonderfully tame 
individual formerly in the possession of Kean the actor, used 
to follow its master about like a Dog, and was often introduced 
into the company of strangers. Writing of the specimen de- 
picted in Plate VIII. of the present volume, Jardine observes 
that “fit was extremely gentle and playful, and showed no 
symptoms of ferocity to the strangers who came to see it. Its 
motions were all free and graceful, and it exhibited the greatest 
agility in leaping and swinging about the joists of a large 
unoccupied room in the old college of Edinburgh.” For the 
following additional particulars we are indebted to the account 
given by Mr. Wilson. ‘It rejoices greatly in the society of 
