COUGA'R, 
small head, and a long tail. The hair, which 
is short, is nearly of one entire colour ; namely, 
a lively red, intermixed with a few blackish 
tint>, particularly on the upper par: of the 
back. The chin, neck, and all the inferior 
parts of the body, are whitisli. 
Pennant describes the Cougar as having a 
very small head; ears a little pointed; eyes 
large; chin white; back, neck, rump, and 
sides, pale brownish red, mixed with dusky 
hairs; breast, bellv, and ihsides of legs, cine- 
reous; hair on the belly long; tail dusky and 
ferruginous, tlie tip being black ; teeth of vast 
size ; claws white, the outermost claw of the 
fore-feet behig much longer than the others ; 
the body long ; and the animal standing high 
on it's ]e2:s. The lencrth, he adds, from nose 
to tail, is five feet tlirce inches, and the tail 
two feet eight. The animal puns like a cat. 
Goldsmith, though he cannot but admit, 
tliat the Cougar is vcrv different from the tiger 
of the east, says — Some, however, have 
thought proper to rank both together, and I 
will take leave to follow their example: merely 
because 
