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The panther is a well-known animal in India and the Asiatic islands; and, as already stated, there is a dark-skinned variety, commonly known as the Black Panther of Java. Taking the cat family according to size, the next that deserves mention is the Couguar, or Puma. His colour is a uniform tawny red, or calf colour; and he is inferior to the jaguar in size, strength, and courage.
Why the couguar had fallen to my side, I could not tell: for he was fairly on the ridge of the dead-wood when I fired. Perhaps, on receiving the shot, he had fancied that it came from the only enemy visible to him; and, by an instinct impelling him to escape, had tumbled off in the opposite direction. I perceived that he was not yet dead.
The red couguar and brown wolverene crouch along the edges of the thicket, to contest with jackal and wolf the possession of the carcass, where some stray quadruped has fallen a victim to the hungry troop; while black vultures wheeling aloft, await the issue of the conflict. Birds of fairer fame add animation to the scene.
The animal, whom Clare had taken for a young lion without being so far wrong, for he has often been called the American lion was the puma, or couguar, peculiar to America, with a relation to the jaguar, also American, a little similar to that of the lion to the tiger.
On the outer surface of each tent was exhibited the biography of its owner expressed in picture-writing. More especially were his deeds of prowess thus recorded encounters with the couguar and grizzly bear with Crows, Cheyennes, Pawnees, and Arapahoes each under its suitable symbol.
Many years of practice during which I had often aimed at higher game had steeled my nerves and straightened my sight. Both proved sufficiently true for the destruction of the couguar. Quick after the crack, I saw his red body roll back from the log; and, when the smoke thinned off, I could see the animal writhing upon the ground.
Not a marksman in the mountains could match with her, except Don Jose himself, who taught her; and as for hunting la linda cazadora! she can steal upon the game like a couguar. Ah! she can protect herself. She has done so. But for her spirit and rifle, the Red-Hand would have ruined her." "But how? you have not told me " "True, cavallero! I have yet to answer number three. Bueno!
Effect and cause came under my eye almost at the same instant. The latter I saw upon the log in hideous form the form of a couguar! Slowly advancing along the dead-wood not by bounds or paces, but with the stealthy tread of a cat his long red body stretched out to its full extent the beast more resembled a gigantic caterpillar than a quadruped.
We judged by the sound that he was not above a quarter of a mile from us, and that he was close to the side of the river. Unfortunately the Indian said it was not a jaguar that was roaring, but a couguar. The couguar is of a pale, brownish-red colour, and not as large as the jaguar.
Here in hollow log the black she-bear gives birth to her loutish cubs, training them to climb over the decaying trunks; here the lynx and red couguar choose their cunning convert; here the racoon rambles over his beaten track; the sly opossum crawls warily along the log, or goes to sleep among the tangle of dry rhizomes; while the gaunt brown wolf may be often heard howling amidst the ruin, or in hoarse bark baying the midnight moon.
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