The Wapiti or Round-Horned Rlk. 



or war-tines ; the tray is known simply as the third point ; 

 and the most characteristic prong, the long and massive 

 fourth, is now and then called the dagger-point ; the others 

 being known as the fifth and sixth. 



In the high mountain forest into which the wapiti has 

 been driven, the large, heavily furred northern lynx, the 

 lucivee, takes the place of the smaller, thinner-haired lynx 

 of the plains and of the more southern districts, the bob- 

 cat or wildcat. On the Little Missouri the latter is the 

 common form ; yet I have seen a lucivee which was killed 

 there. On Clarke's Fork of the Columbia both occur, the 

 lucivee being the most common. They feed chiefly on 

 hares, squirrels, grouse, fawns, etc. ; and the lucivee, at 

 least, also occasionally kills foxes and coons, and has in its 

 turn to dread the pounce of the big timber wolf. Both 

 kinds of lynx can most easily be killed with dogs, as they 

 tree quite readily when thus pursued. The wildcat is often 

 followed on horseback, with a pack of hounds, when the 

 country is favorable ; and when chased in this fashion 

 yields excellent sport. The skin of both these lynxes is 

 tender. They often maul an inexperienced pack quite 

 badly, inflicting severe scratches and bites on any hound 

 which has just resolution enough to come to close quarters, 

 but not to rush in furiously ; but a big fighting dog will 

 readily kill either. At Thompson's Falls two of Willis 1 

 hounds killed a lucivee unaided, though one got torn. 

 Archibald Rogers' dog Sly, a cross between a greyhound 

 and a bull mastiff, killed a bobcat single-handed. He 

 bayed the cat and then began to threaten it, leaping from 

 side to side ; suddenly he broke the motion, and rushing 



