THE PUMA. 
FeuLts Concotor. Urn. 
NEARLY approaching to the Jaguar in size and form, 
but obviously distinguished from him at the first glance, 
by the total absence of spots, the Puma, Couguar, or, 
as he was once called, the American Lion, occupies the 
second place among the cats of the New World, over 
nearly the whole of which he was formerly spread, from 
Canada and the United States in the North, to the very 
extremity of Patagonia in the South. From a large 
portion of this immense expanse of country he appears, 
however, to have been of late years in a great measure, 
if not entirely, rooted out; and it is seldom that he is 
now heard of in the vicinity of that civilization, which 
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