NOTES OF A FUR HUNTER. 
BY HENRY CLAPP. 
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[When exploring the slate-bearing region of Maine last fall, I had 
occasion to employ as guide Mr. Henry Clapp, of Brownsville, Pis- 
. cataquis county, of that State. ` His home is at the foot of the Ebeeme 
Mountains, which form the southern portion of a mountainous dis- 
trict, extending away north to, and including Mount Katahdin, a dis- 
rict well watered by the Penobscot and Upper Kennebec, and their 
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them and enlarge upon them, but they seem to me to take their prin- 
cipal value from the fact, that they are a record essentially as given 
of an intelligent, experienced hunter’s account of the results of his 
observations. — J. E. M.] 
Pantuer, or Caramounr (Felis concolor Linn.). I 
never saw a Panther, or Catamount. One night I found 
a deer bitten through the back. There were many tracks 
(not of deer) right about him, but I could not find any 
leading off from the spot. I think the beast jumped on to 
the deer from a tree. I heard his shrill screech, like that 
of a woman in distress. I heard the same screech and 
saw the same track again not far off. I think the animal 
_ Was a catamount. 
___ Lywx, or Loup-cervier (Lynx Canadensis Raf.). The 
Loup-cervier lives upon partridges, deer, rabbits, ete. ` It 
_ an climb trees. I have seen one in a tree. Ihave had 
One carry my trap with a heavy clog into a tree, and 
found him dead with it in the limbs. The animal is about _ 
