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in any way, recalling the veneration felt and re- 
straint exercised toward the tiger by certain sects 
in India. Dampier- adds, subsequently, that the 
Jesuit missionaries there were not able for a long 
time to make any headway against this notion, and 
could keep no live-stock in consequence. Clans in 
various tribes of the Southwest have been proudly 
named after this successful hunter and model 
guerilla; and it stands at the head of the curious 
“prey-god’” theogony of the Zufiis, who call it the 
“Father of Game.” 
NoTE.—In addition to the books above mentioned, one 
should read the writings of President Theodore Roosevelt, — 
especially his “Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter”; 
and the publications of the Boone and Crockett Club. Long 
and interesting accounts of both animals will be found in the 
great work of Audubon, and in Godman’s'“ Natural History.” 
For the puma and jaguar in Central and South America, read 
Porter’s “Wild Beasts”; Bates’s “Naturalist on the River 
Amazons ”; Belt’s “ Naturalist in Nicaragua”; Hudson’s “ The 
Naturalist in La Plata”; and Azara’s “ Natural History of the 
Quadrupeds of Paraguay.” The question of protective color- 
ing, etc., is well summarized in Beddard’s “ Animal Coloration.” 
Stone and Cram’s “American Animals” gives references to 
several authorities on classification and structure; and in my 
“Life of Mammals” I have sketched both the puma and 
jaguar at length, and have noted many books relating to them, 
to which may be added a late publication by Bailey (No. 25 
of Morth American Fauna), describing these animals as they 
appear in southern Texas. 
