148 FRANK forester's FIELD SPORTS. 



No. 8. The Rocky Mountain Goat, Ovis Montana, Rupica- 

 pra Americana, vulgo Rocky Mountain Sheep. — Tn those parts 

 of the Rocky Mountains, which lie between 48° and 68° north 

 latitude. 



No. 9. The Black Bear, Ursus Americanus. — Ranging over 

 the whole continent of North America. 



No. 10. The Grizzly Bear, Ursus Horrihilis. — West of the 

 Missouri, adjacent to the Rocky Mountains. 



The Puma or Cougar, Felis Concolor, vulgo Panther, the 

 different varieties of Lynx, Felis Canadensis, Felis Rufa, Felis 

 Fasciata, Loup Cervier, vulgo Wild- Cat, the two species of 

 Wolf, Canis Lupus, and Canis Latrans, although often pursued, 

 and invariably killed whenever taken, I cannot bring myself to 

 regard as game, or even animals of sport, or chase, never being 

 scientifically or systematically hunted. 



Lastly, the only bird which falls under this department of 

 field sports, the noblest gallinaceous fowl of the world, and the 

 finest of the order Rasores, is, 



No. 11. The Wild Turkey, Meleagris Gallopavo. — In West- 

 ern Canada, occasionally in New-York, a few in the Eastern 

 States and in Northern Pennsylvania, though scarcely in suffici- 

 ent numbers to be considered as game of the Eastern or Middle 

 States. Everywhere west of the Ohio; a few in the Carolinas, 

 Florida and Georgia, to the far West. 



These animals, which are all pursued, more or less, with the 

 Rifle and the Hound, all afford the finest and most exciting 

 sport, are all game, with perhaps the one exception of the 

 Grizzly Bear, of the highest order, and constitute the principal 

 object of pui-suit, and a main article of food to the wild aborigi- 

 nes of the western wilderness, and the hardy woodmen who 

 have succeeded and supplanted them on the prairies and in the 

 forests of the illimitable West. 



Smaller game, are, for the most part, held in contempt by 

 these bold and hardy hunters ; the use of the shot-gun by them 

 is- unknown and neglected, and the article itself despised as the 

 plaything of a boy ; the art of shooting on the wing, being, ex- 



