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Updated: May 6, 2025
The other so-called "cat" is named "si'-le" by the Igorot. It is said to be a long-tailed, dark-colored animal, smaller than the in'-yao. It is claimed that this si'-le is both carnivorous and frugivorous. These two animals are trapped at times, and when caught are eaten. During the year the boys catch numbers of small birds, all of which are eaten.
When this is freed the loop, E, at once tightens around the victim, as the cord is drawn taut by the releasing of the spring a shrub bent over and secured by the upper end of the cord. This spring is not shown in the drawing. Spring snare, Kok-o'-lang. Bontoc has two or three quadrupeds which it names "cats." One of these is a true cat, called in'-yao.
It is domesticated by the Ilokano in Bontoc and becomes a good mouser. The kok-o'-lang is used to catch this cat. Pl. XLVI shows with what success this spring snare may be employed. The cat shown was caught in the night while trying to enter a chicken coop. He was a wild in'-yao, was beautifully striped like the American "tiger cat," and measured 35 inches from tip to tip.
The in'-yao is plentiful in the mountains, and is greatly relished by the Igorot, though Bontoc has no professional cat hunters and probably not a dozen of the animals are captured annually. The Igorot claim to have two other "cats," one called "co'-lang," as large as in'-yao, with large legs and very large feet. A Spaniard living near Sagada says this animal eats his coffee berries.
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