Cougar 
ter; every scrap of flesh that is scattered is wanted by one 
warm-blooded creature or another before warm weather comes 
again. The lynx appears to have its summer home in tangled 
thickets and snarls of young growth, where the _ interlocking 
branches of fallen trees afford protection. Here the ill-natured 
kittens are raised and taught to hunt, so that when the bitter 
struggle of winter is forced upon them they may, if possible, 
hold their own and prolong their lives at the expense of others, 
in order that their race may live. They hold on to life grimly 
through long, cold nights in the dark Northern forests, believing 
somehow that at last spring will be in the woods again, bring~ 
ing flight birds from the South, and awakening the small 
creatures that sleep all winter down deep in the frozen earth where 
the most desperate lynx can never reach them. Until then the 
lynxes must hunt as best they can, tireless and in splendid 
health, and quite unconscious of the cold, but oh, so hungry! 
One of the most astonishing facts in nature is the length 
of time that most flesh-eating animals can go without food, on 
long hunts through deep snow, night after night, breathing frozen 
air that drives a man hungry soon after the heartiest meal, they 
maintain their strength ready for a desperate struggle when 
at last the long pursuit draws to successful end. 
Cougar 
Felis couguar Kerr 
Called also Puma, Mountain Lion, Panther, Painter. 
Length. 8 feet, 6 inches; tail, 3 feet. 
Description, Body relatively longer than in the lynx, tail very 
much longer, no tufts on the ears. General colour pale 
rufous or yellowish-brown, darker along the back and_ tail, 
tip of tail blackish; face grayer, under parts dirty white. 
Range. Formerly Eastern North America, now probably extinct, 
though a closely allied variety, F. cory Bangs, the Florida 
Cougar, still exists in Florida, and others from the Rocky 
Mountains westward and south throughout South America. 
Apart from the blood-curdling tales of most doubtful authen- 
icity with which every one is familiar, accounts pretty gen- 
