172 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



Mr. Brown's notes, like Mr. Hatcher's, relate in part to both of the 

 Patagonian forms, and are as follows : 



"What appears to be two species of lion, judging from the pelage, are 

 found in southern Patagonia, ranging from the Andes to the coast. Both 

 species are found along the coast, although it is generally understood by 

 the sheep farmers that the red lion is a native of the mountains and fol- 

 lows the guanacos to the coast as those animals are driven to the sea board 

 by the winter snows. 



" I counted six lions one day while riding in the foot hills of the Andes 

 in February, all of a decided ferruginous buff color. The gray species 

 resembles our northern Felis concolor in pelage and is most often met 

 along the coast. 



" Neither species seems as fierce as the North American lion, probably 

 because of the ease with which they get food. I heard of but one instance 

 of a lion attacking a man, and that was in the mountains where the guana- 

 cos were scarce. Tlie natives do not hesitate to ride onto a lion and kill 

 it with a stirrup iron if a gun is not handy. I was on one hunt where 

 this was done, and my friend said he had killed many in this way. I pre- 

 ferred, however, to shoot mine. 



" In the broken camp along the coast where caves are numerous the 

 lions breed in considerable numbers causing great destruction among the 

 sheep. In riding through a paddock one morning I counted sixty little 

 lambs lying dead on a side hill where during the night a lioness with two 

 cubs had run through the bunch batting the lambs as a kitten plays with a 

 ball." — Barnum Brown, MSS. notes. 



Mr. Prichard's account of the Puma, which he calls Felis concolor pttma, 

 is quite in agreement with the statements of Hatcher and Brown. He 

 credits the Puma with attacking man, but only in rare instances and in 

 wild places remote from settlements. He says that in the Cordillera 

 "they actually reconnoitred the camp," and "often stampeded our horses 

 and left plain tracks near the camp, but in spite of this they killed no 

 animal, not even a dog, belonging to us." 



"Puma cubs," he says, "in captivity become very tame. One settler 

 whom I met had two cubs about a year old. They were attached to their 

 new home, and though they would follow a horse for two hundred yards 

 or so, they invariably returned after a short distance to the shanty of their 

 owner. Another puma cub . . . was wont to fight battles royal with the 



