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animals, and when such food is scarce it 

 catches fish in shallow pools. Unlike the 

 puma, it sometimes turns man-eater. There 

 is an extraordinary and unexplained feud be- 

 tween the two, and what is even more remark- 

 able than their having any cause of quarrel is 

 the fact that the puma, which is the lighter and 

 seemingly more gentle animal, should invari- 

 ably be not only the aggressor, but also the 

 victor. It manages to jump on the jaguar's back 

 and to maul it terribly even where the end is 

 not fatal. 



BEARS 



South America has two bears, the spectacled 

 kind and another, also found in the Andes, 

 which seems to be closely related, but has not 

 the " spectacle" markings. These, which give 

 the animal its name, consist of white curves 

 going half way round the eyes, and there are 

 also white bands on the side of the face. 



DEER 



There are also at any rate two deer. The 

 chief of these is the marsh deer, which lives 

 on the soft ground along the banks of the 

 great rivers of Brazil, a large animal standing 

 about 4 feet at the shoulder. The record 

 antlers are 25 inches. The most noticeable 

 feature of this deer is the wide, spreading 



