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FRANK FOEESTER’S FIELD SPOETS. 
though of many species ; and in the United States and British 
Provinces of North America, these families may be limited to 
six families of quadrupeds only, containing twelve sub-genera 
and species ; and this at the very largest and most liberal com¬ 
putation. These families are the Ox, Bos; the Goat, Capra; 
the Antelope, Antilope ; Deer, Ccrvus ; Hare r Lepus; and the 
Bear, Ursus 
Of the first, second and third of these genera, there are but 
three species found on this continent, one of each. 
The Bison, Bos Americanus , peculiar to South America. 
The Rocky Mountain Goat, Capra Montana. 
The Rocky Mountain Sheep, Ovis Montana ; and 
The American Antelope, or Pronghorn. 
Of the Deer there are five varieties found in the territories of 
the United States and the Provinces, namely— 
The Moose, Cervus Alces ; 
The Elk, Cervus Canadensis; 
The Cariboo, American Reindeer, Cervus Tarandus ; 
The Common Deer, Cervus Virginianus ; and 
The Black-tailed Deer, Cervus Macrotis. 
Of the Hare there are two varieties known on this continent: 
The Common Hare —vulg. Rabbit— Lepus Americanus ; and 
The Northern Hare, Lepus Virginianus. 
Of the Bear also there are two varieties : 
The Common Brown Bear, Ursus Americanus ; and 
The Grisly Bear, Ursus Horribilis. 
This is the utmost limit that I can assign to the quadruped 
game of this country ; as I cannot lend my humble sanction to 
the shooting squirrels, racoons, or opossums out of trees, and 
calling that sportsmanship ; any more than I can assent to shoot¬ 
ing thrushes, crow-blackbirds, pigeons, meadow-larks, and reed- 
birds, and calling them game. 
In fact, for my own part, I can scarcely bring myself to re¬ 
gard the Bison or the Bear as game, in consequence of the whole- 
