506 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
Distribution.— America, from Louisiana, Texas, and Northern Mexico 
to about the Rio Negro on the northern confines of Patagonia in 
lat-A0° S: 
Length before Length pee . 
skinning. dressed. Locality. Owner. 
ft. ins. it anss . 
9 3 Q°% 2 Brazil : : . Count Henry Coudenhove. 
-§ 3} ae Do. : ; : Do. 
-6 II i) Paraguay . é . Col. J. J. Harrison. 
The PUMA (Felis concolor). 
With the exception of the small and long-tailed jaguarondi 
and eyra, the puma (pronounced pooma) is the only uniformly 
coloured cat found in America, where its range extends from British 
Columbia and Maine in the north to the Strait of Magellan in the 
south. The size is inferior to that of the jaguar, the height at the 
shoulder being about 2 feet, and the weight 150 lbs. The general 
colour of the fur is tawny, tending, like that of the white-tailed deer, to 
reddish in summer and to greyish in winter, with the middle of the 
back darker, and a whitish patch on the back of the otherwise black 
ears. But with such an enormous geographical range, it is inevitable 
there should be much local variation ; and a number of races are now 
recognised, most of which are distinguished by size or the redder or 
greyer tint of the fur. A Patagonian race has pale ears. 
roe et Weight. Locality. Owner. 
ft. ins. Ibs. 
-§ 6 about 150 ? A. Pendarves Vivian. 
—7 68 at Brazil 4 , : 3 , Count Henry Coudenhove. 
TS At Gallegos River, Patagonia . W. Moncreiffe. 
—7 3 Fraser River, British Columbia. The late J. Fannin. 
—7 O os Wyoming . ; : ; ~ Won scarlepe 
— Owner's measurements. 
LYNXES (Felis lynx, etc.). 
The lynxes form a well-marked group connected with the more 
typical members of the cat tribe by the jungle-cat (/ chaus), and 
distinguished by the tuft of long hairs at the summit of the ears, and 
the absence of the first upper cheek-tooth. From the others the caracal 
