COL' GAR. 
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1 Topics in Mexico, and Yucatan, and has penetrated through Panama in- 
to Guyana and South America, where it is sometimes called the Puma. 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
The variations of size, to which this species is subject, have created 
much confusion among our books of Natural History, and added a con- 
siderable number of supposed new species. After having examined very 
carei'ully very many specimens, both in a prepared state, and alive 
in menageries, procured in most parts of North and South America, we 
have arrived at the conclusion that the Cougar of North America and 
the Puma of our Southern Continent are one and the same species, and 
cannot even be regarded as varieties. 
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