XXU CONTENTS. 



PACTB 



Works only at Night 264 



Diving and Swimming 265 



Protection against Frost 265 



Beaver Beds 265 



Habits in Travelling 265 



Lazy Beavers or " Paresseux" 266 



Habits of the " Paresseux" 266 



Beaver Catching Season 267 



Weight of the Beaver 2A7 



Beaver Tails eaten 267 



Mode of Hunting the Beaver in Winter 268 



A Domesticated Beaver 269 



THE JAGUAR. 



Of American Animals the most to be dreaded 270 



Equal to the Tiger in Fierceness 271 



Haunts and Habits of the Jaguar 271 



Roams abroad through the -whole Night 271 



Lies in wait at Salt Licks 271 



Preys on Colts and Calves 272 



Sneaking Habits 272 



The Jaguar's Mode of seizing its Prey 273 



Wolves and the Jaguar 274 



Colonel Hays and the Jaguar 274 



Skin highly prized 275 



Sometimes prowl in Pairs 275 



Anecdote of the Jaguar 276 



Subject to Fits of Bad Temper 277 



Great Strength 277 



Sometimes attacks the Human Species 277 



CHAPTER XX. 



THE ROCKT MOUNTAIN GOAT. 



Inhabits Vast Mountain Solitudes 279 



First described by Lewis and Clark. , . . 280 



