The mountain lion crouching sat, 



Where prowl'd the lynx and fierce wild-cat ; 

 O'er crags sprang mountain goats and sheep, 



While hare and rabbits startled, leap. 



OTHER FOUR-FOOTED GAME. 



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Along the mountain ranges near the Pacific 

 coast the CaHfornia lion, or mountain lion, an 

 Animal of great strength and activity, is quite 

 fiequently found by adventurous hunters, and 

 the common w^ild-cat and lynx are found in many 

 if not most of the large forest areas of the 

 United States. These animals are seldom 

 hunted as a specialty, or as affording a distinct 

 branch of^''fieI(J '6p6rts, but their pursuit is exciting, and their killing 

 is hailed w^ith delight by frontiersmen, whose flocks and herds suffer from 

 their depredations. The same is true of the wolf. 



The Rocky Mountain goat^ and sheep — each species being now in 

 process of extermination — are objects of interest to keen still hunters who 

 possess the agility and endurance of Alpine crag climbers. Of the com- 

 mon hare, or rabbit, the late Col. F. G. Skinner has given entertaining 

 testimony, through the sportsmen's journals, as to the capital sport which 

 may be had by pursuing the "cotton tails" with well- trained beagles ; and 

 of the large jack-rabbit of the West it may be said to his credit that he 

 has been the "prime mover" — in fact, always takes the lead in carrying 

 on the sport of coursing upon American soil, and therefore " may his tribe 

 increase." 



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