MOUNTAIN LION or COUGAR 



Felis couguar. 



This animal called "cougar'' from an abbreviation of its 

 South American name and known as mountain lion from its uni- 

 form brownish drab color, as "puma" and panther from its leopard- 

 like movements, and as painter from the name given it by the first 

 settlers, is as widely distributed as this list of titles implies, for- 

 merly ranging from the Canadian border south throughout our 

 country and still to be found in the mountain tracts and undeveloped 

 lands of the west and south. 



Many stories have been told of its attacks upon human be- 

 ings, and the quickness with which the colonists contrived to rid 

 their settlements of its presence might seem to prove at least a foun- 

 dation of fact to some of them. If so, the painter well learned his 



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