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in any way, recalling the veneration felt and re- 

 straint exercised toward the tiger by certain sects 

 in India. Dampier adds, subsequently, that the 

 Jesuit missionaries there were not able for a long 

 time to make any headway against this notion, and 

 could keep no live-stock in consequence. Clans in 

 various tribes of the Southwest have been proudly 

 named after this successful hunter and model 

 guerilla ; and it stands at the head of the curious 

 " prey-god " theogony of the Zuftis, who call it the 

 " Father of Game." 



NOTE. In addition to the books above mentioned, one 

 should read the writings of President Theodore Roosevelt, 

 especially his "Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter"; 

 and the publications of the Boone and Crockett Club. Long 

 and interesting accounts of both animals will be found in the 

 great work of Audubon, and in Godman's " Natural History." 

 For the puma and jaguar in Central and South America, read 

 Porter's "Wild Beasts"; Bates's "Naturalist on the River 

 Amazons " ; Belt's " Naturalist in Nicaragua " ; Hudson's " The 

 Naturalist in La Plata"; and Azara's "Natural History of the 

 Quadrupeds of Paraguay." The question of protective color- 

 ing, etc., is well summarized in Beddard's " Animal Coloration." 

 Stone and Cram's " American Animals " gives references to 

 several authorities on classification and structure ; and in my 

 " Life of Mammals " I have sketched both the puma and 

 jaguar at length, and have noted many books relating to them, 

 to which may be added a late publication by Bailey (No. 25 

 of North American Fauna), describing these animals as they 

 appear in southern Texas. 



