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FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
No. 8. The Rocky Mountain Goat, Ovis Montana, Rupica - 
fra Americana, vulgo Rocky Mountain Sheep .—In those parts 
of the Rocky Mountains, which lie between 48° and 68° north 
latitude,—and Wild Sheep of the West. 
No. 9. The Black Bear, TJrsus Americanus .—Ranging over 
the whole continent of North America. 
No. 10. The Grizzly Bear, TJrsus Uorribilis .—West of the 
Missouri, adjacent to the Rocky Mountains. 
The Puma or Cougar, Felis Concolor, vulgo Panther , the 
different varieties of Lynx, Felis Canadensis, Felis Rufa, Felis 
Fasciata, Loup Cervier , vulgo Wild-Cat, the two species of 
Wolf, Canis Lupus, and Canis Latrans, although often pursued, 
and invariably killed whenever taken, I cannot bring myself to 
regard as game, or even animals of sport, or chase, never being 
scientifically or systematically hunted. 
Lastly, the only bird which falls under this department of 
field sports, the noblest gallinaceous fowl of the world, and the 
finest of the order Rasores, is, 
No. 11. The Wild Turkey, Meleagris Gallopavo .—In West¬ 
ern Canada, occasionally in New-York, a few in the Eastern 
States and in Northern Pennsylvania, though scarcely in suffici¬ 
ent numbers to be considered as game of the Eastern or Middle 
States. Everywhere west of the Ohio; a few in the Carolinas, 
Florida and Georgia, to the far West. 
These animals, which are all pursued, more or less, with the 
Rifle and the Hound, all afford the finest and most exciting 
sport, are all game, with perhaps the one exception of the 
Grizzly Bear, of the highest order, and constitute the principal 
object of pursuit, and a main article of food to the wild aborigi¬ 
nes of the western wilderness, and the hardy woodmen who 
have succeeded and supplanted them on the prairies and in the 
forests of the illimitable West. 
Smaller game, are, for the most part, held in contempt by 
these bold and hardy hunters ; the use of the shot-gun by them 
is unknown and neglected, and the article itself despised as the 
plaything of a boy; the art of shooting on the wing, being, ex- 
