32 FRANK forester's FIELD SPORTS. 



though of many species ; and in the United States and British 

 Provinces of North America, these families may be limited to 

 six families of quadrupeds only, containing twelve sub-genera 

 and species ; and this at the very largest and most liberal com- 

 putation. These families are the Ox, Bos; the Goat, Capra ; 

 the Antelope, Antilope ; Deer, Ccrvus ; Hare, Lepus ; and the 

 Bear, TJrsus 



Of the first, second and third of these genera, there are but 

 three species found on this continent, one of each. 



The Bison, Bos Americanus^ peculiar to North America. 

 The Rocky Mountain Sheep, Ovis Montana ; and 

 The American Antelope, or Pronghorn. 



Of the Deer there are five varieties found in the territories of 

 the United States and the Provinces, namely — 



The Moose, Cervus Alces ; 



The Elk, Cervus Canadensis ; 



The Cariboo, American Reindeer, Cervus Tarandus ; 



The Common Deer, Cervus Virginianus ; and 



The Black-tailed Deer, Cervus Macrotis. 



Of the Hare there are two varieties known on this continent : 

 The Common Hare — vulg. Rabbit — Lepus Americanus ; and 

 The Northern Hare, Lepus Vircjinianus. 



Of the Bear also there are two varieties : 



The Common Brown Bear, TJrsus Americanus ; and 

 The Grisly Bear, TJrsus Horrihilis. 



This is the utmost limit that I can assign to the quadruped 

 game of this country ; as I cannot lend my humble sanction to 

 the shooting squirrels, racoons, or opossums out of trees, and 

 calling that sportsmanship ; any more than I can assent to shoot- 

 ing thrushes, crow-blackbirds, pigeons, meadow-larks, and reed- 

 birds, and calling them game. 



In fact, for my own part, I can scarcely bring myself to re- 

 gard the Bison or the Bear as game, in consequence of the whole- 



