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antlers; but sometimes ten, although they are al- 

 ways small. The three-year-old has eight or ten 

 points, while his body may be nearly as large as 

 that of a full-grown animal. The four-year-old is 

 normally a ten or twelve pointer, but as yet with 

 much smaller antlers than those so proudly borne 

 by the old bulls. 



Frontiersmen only occasionally distinguish the 

 prongs by name. The brow and bay points are 

 called dog-killers or war-tines; the tray is known 

 simply as the third point ; and the most characteris- 

 tic prong, the long and massive fourth, is now and 

 then called the dagger-point ; the others being known 

 as the fifth and sixth. 



In the high mountain forest into which the wapiti 

 has been driven, the large, heavily furred northern 

 lynx, the lucivee, takes the place of the smaller, 

 thinner-haired lynx of the plains, and of the more 

 southern districts, the bobcat or wildcat. On the 

 Little Missouri the latter is the common form; yet 

 I have seen a lucivee which was killed there. On 

 Clark's Fork of the Columbia both occur, the luci- 

 vee being the most common. They feed chiefly on 

 hares, squirrels, grouse, fawns, etc. ; and the lucivee, 

 at least, also occasionally kills foxes and coons, and 

 has in its turn to dread the pounce of the big timber 

 wolf. Both kinds of lynx can most easily be killed 

 with dogs, as they tree quite readily when thus pur- 

 sued. The wildcat is often followed on horseback, 



