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Title: The trapper's guide; a manual of instructions for capturing all kinds of fur-bearing animals, and curing their skins; with observations on the fur-trade, hints on life in the woods, and narratives of trapping and hunting excursions
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Newhouse, S. (Sewell) Noyes, John Humphrey, 1811-1886
Subjects: Trapping Hunting
Publisher: Community, N.Y., Oneida community, limited
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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thern New York havebeen known to measuie over eleven feet from the nose to thetip of the tail, being about twenty-eight inches high, andweighing nearly two hundred pounds. Their color is a red-dish-brown above, shading into a lighter color underneath.They are armed with sharp teeth and long, heavy claws.They feed chiefly on deer, crawling stealthily to withinspringing distance, or watching on son)e cliff or tree, andpouncing like a cat on their prey. Their activity enablesthem to take the deer with ease. It is asserted by huntersthat each Panther destroys as many as two deer per week,and a j)air of Panthers have been known to attack and kill afull-grown moose. In newly settled countries, they fre-quently carry off young cattle and sheep. They are goodcJimbers and readily take to a tree when pursued by dogs,from which they can easily be brought down by the rifle.This is the most common way of taking them. They arecowardly, and rarely attack a man unless wounded, whenthey are dangerous.
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u CAPTURE OF ANIMALS. 59 The best way to take Panthers with steel-traps is.to findwhere they have killed a deer or other animal, and left partof the carcass. Secrete the trap near the remains, and youwill catch tliem when they return for a second meal. Theyseldom leave the vicinity of an animal they have killed, till itis all devoured. The same is true of all the large animals ofthe cat kind, such as the lion, tiger, leopard, jaguar, &c. THE JAGUAR. Like the cougar, this is an exclusively American animal.Though scarcely equalling the cougar in extreme length, theJaguar is stouter and more formidable. It is found fromLouisiana to Buenos Ayres. This animal has a large head, arobust body, and is A^ery ferocious. Its usual size is aboutthree fourths that of the tiger. Humboldt, however, statesthat he saw Jaguars which in length surpassed that of all thetigers of Asia which he had seen in the collections of Europe.The Jaguar is sometimes called the American tiger. Theirfavorite haunts

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