WITH THE COUGAR HOUNDS 



3 1 



Webb. The length is measured in a straight line, " be- 

 tween uprights," from the nose to the extreme tip of the 

 tail, when the beast was stretched out. The animals were 

 weighed with the steelyard and also spring scales. Be- 

 fore measuring, we pulled the beast out as straight as we 

 possibly could; and as the biggest male represents about, 

 or very nearly, the maximum for the species, it is easy 



to see that there can be no basis for the talk one sometimes 

 hears about ten and eleven foot cougars. No cougar, 

 measured at all fairly, has ever come anywhere near 

 reaching the length of nine feet. The fresh hide can 

 easily be stretched a couple of feet extra. Except the first 

 two, all were full grown; the biggest male was nearly 

 three times the size of the smallest female. 



I shot five bobcats: two old males weighing 39 and 31 



1 Young. 



