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Identifier: fivehundredfasci00mile (find matches)
Title: Five hundred fascinating animal stories, with numerous colored plates, illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., etc., ect.
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry), 1848-1929
Subjects: Animal behavior Zoology
Publisher: New York, The Christian herald
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
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U3 d* X a Z<n °^ U 01 U m QD THE PUMA. 67 till daybreak, and then only feeling safe from her enemy,she went as fast as her strength would let her to her nearestneighbours a distance of two miles, where she procuredhelp for her wounded fingers, which were long in gettingwell. On his return, her husband found a male and femalejaguar with their cubs, in the forest close by, and ail weredestroyed. The Puma. The Puma, or American lion, is known byseveral names. It is sometimes called a panther, or collo-quially a painter, and sometimes a cougar. It resemblesthe lioness somewhat in appearance, especially about thehead, though it is smaller and less powerful. Its lengthvaries from four feet to four feet and a half, and itscolour is that of the fox, graduating in parts to white. Likethe lion it inhabits plains rather than forests;—in the marshydistricts, and on the borders of rivers in the south, and inthe swamps and prairies of the northern districts. It lives onsuch wild and domestic