TEXAS 



HE great state of Texas contains an area 

 of 274,356 square miles, over three 

 times the area of all the New Eng- 

 land states. The country within fifty 

 miles of the coast line is level ; be- 

 hind this, in the interior and north, 

 the country is undulating ; the 

 northwestern part is made up largely 

 of mountains and table-lands. In 

 this locality is the great Staked plain, containing more 

 than 50,000 square miles. 



The furred game of Texas consists of elk, deer, ante- 

 lope, panther, bear, lynx, wolf, both gray or timber- 

 wolf, and the prairie-wolf or coyote, jack-rabbit, cot- 

 tontail rabbit, and badger. Occasionally an ocelot and 

 a jaguar are killed ; straggling peccary, too, are some- 

 times shot. 



The list of feathered game of Texas is long. There 

 are wild turkey, several species of grouse, including the 

 ruffed grouse and pinnated grouse, snipe, and several 

 species of quail. There are believed to be some wild, 

 or passenger-, pigeon in Texas. 



Deer are abundant in Anderson county. At Pales- 

 tine, deer are frequently shot within five or six miles of 

 the city. They are hunted almost exclusively with 

 hounds. 



In the Pecos river country in western Texas there are 

 cougar or mountain-lion, black and cinnamon bear, 



