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Appendix 



The Hon. Wm. Elliott and his friends regularly employed dogs to hunt 

 Bobcats in Carolina bays and bay heads near Beaufort, South Carolina. The 

 following is Elliott's (1918:142-145) description of the habitat and the hunt. 



"...quagmire at the surface, briers above (wherever their places were not 

 preoccupied by bay-trees, that, for want of elbow room, had grown up as 

 straight as canes, and almost as close)... and where the cat... had ensconced 

 himself behind an entrenchment of briers, which hounds, unless their blood was 

 heated by pursuit, would not willingly enter — so that he remained undetected. 



"The hounds had not long entered the thicket, in which (from finding at its 

 edge the remains of a half-devoured rabbit) we concluded that the cat still 

 lurked,... and soon, a burst from the pack assured us that the cat was roused... 

 But he keeps the cover, which is so thick as to defy the keenest sight; and circles 

 it securely, leaving the dogs to tear their way through the briers. 'Ha! what is 

 that? a shot! — another!'... Another shot! ah, now they pause — one savage 

 growl — one stifled cry — and all is hushed..." [Three hunters surrounded the bay 

 and each shot one or more times at the cat.] 



"'How now?' says the judge, 'what hocus pocus is here? This is a tawny, 

 leopard-like animal, while I pronounce the cat I fired at to be bigger and 

 blacker; I saw it clearly as it rolled over in the swamp at the flash of my gun.' 



"'My opinion, in this case, is precisely the same,' said the doctor. 'I fired at 

 a black cat; the dogs must have changed cats during the chase!' 



"'So much the better, gentlemen,' said I; 'we shall then have two cats, 

 instead of one. Put on the hounds, boys!' They were taken to the point from 

 which the doctor fired; but the stupid animals could find no trail, but that which 

 led them again to the spot on which the tawny cat lay dead! 



"... the cat, being duly subjected to a post-mortem examination, was found 

 to have been struck by four out of the six shots fired at him — and the doctor's 

 shot, of peculiar size, being lodged in his body, left no doubt of the fact, that the 

 black cat of the doctor and judge was no other than the tawny cat of the rest of 

 the field. Whether the change of color was in the skin of the cat, or the eye of 

 the sportsman, or the distribution of light, we leave philosophers to determine." 



