HUNTING THE JAGUAR 
a noisy animal. Nor when brought to bay do they, ac- 
cording to Porter, whose chapter ° on these beasts is full of 
valuable details, ‘‘make use of those stratagems that tigers - 
constantly, and lions frequently, adopt for the purpose of in- 
timidating their assailants and causing them to retreat. It 
would appear that jaguars do not commonly make feigned 
assaults, but generally charge in earnest, with lightninglike 
rapidity and desperate determination.” In The Field (Lon- 
don, Dec. 13, 1879) is described a Paraguayan method of 
pursuit which must have been very dangerous : — 
“The hunter very often chose to go alone rather than with any compan- 
ion — his dogs excepted; these he would throw into the covert where it 
was supposed there might be a tiger, while he himself waited in a more open 
part of the forest, in the direction in which the beast would probably make. 
His weapons were one or two lances with short, stout blades, a forked stick 
as thick as one’s arm below the elbow, the foot about four to five feet long, 
and the branches two and a half each, and a large knife. The left arm 
was thickly wrapped in a poncho. When the tiger was started, the hunter 
followed him till brought to bay; and then kneeling on the right knee, and 
resting the end of the forked stick on the ground at his left foot, provoked 
a charge, which he received on the stick, at the same time stabbing the tiger 
with the lance in his right hand. I never actually saw a conflict of this sort, 
but have seen a tiger brought in dead by a man who had gone out a few 
hours before with no weapons but those described, and there was but one 
wound in the body, under the shoulder into the heart.” 
Hudson ® says that the guachos of northern Argentina cap- 
ture the jaguar with the lasso, and this strange weapon some- 
times paralyzes the animal with perplexity and terror. 
Tropical America possesses several small cats of unusual 
interest and many names. Thus the “tiger cat” of South 
America, the ‘‘manigordo” of Costa Rica, or the 
“ocelot”? of Mexico is known to Texans as “‘leopard 
cat.” From Oklahoma to southern Brazil it is always found 
in the woods, and especially in thickets.’ It takes to the trees 
Io! 
Ocelot. 
