"JACKING" ANIMALS 103 



southern California, Colorado, and Utah. Every 

 night hyenas and jackals prowled about the 

 garbage piles, and as we lay in bed we could 

 hear them howling and barking and occasion- 

 ally also the deep, grunting moans of a lion in 

 the rocky hills a mile or so away. 



Kermit Roosevelt originated this new form 

 of night hunting, and the first night he killed 

 several springhaas. 



The springhaas Dutch for jumping hare 

 is an animal about the size of a jack-rabbit 

 but shaped more like a wallaby or a kangaroo. 

 Its front legs are short, while its hind ones are 

 long and used for jumping. Its ears, too, are 

 long, like those of a kangaroo, and its move- 

 ments and mode of locomotion are almost iden- 

 tical. Its upper parts are red, or reddish, and 

 its under-parts whitish, while its tail very long 

 is well haired and has a "brush" at the end. 

 The springhaas lives in colonies in holes in the 

 ground, like a prairie-dog, and each pair, or 

 family, has its individual burrow. It is truly 

 a nocturnal rodent a gnawing animal and if 

 ever seen in daylight it is just after a shower or 

 when the sky is deeply overcast. 



Kermit' s success spurred Doctor Mearns and 



