cougar (kogar)

[Also couguar, cougouar (after F.), cuguar = F. couguar = Sp. cuguardo = G. Dan. kuguar, etc.; contr. of native South Amer. name cuguacuara, cuguacuarana.] A large concolorous feline carnivorous quadruped Cougar ( Felis concolor).-From a photograph by Dixon, London. peculiar to America, Felis concolor, belonging to the family Felidæ and order Feræ. It is about as large as the jaguar, but is longer-limbed, and is not so heavy in body. A not unusual weight is 80 pounds; the length over all is about 80 inches, of which the head and body are 50 inches and the tail 30 inches, the standing height at the shoulders 29 inches, and the girth of the chest 27 inches; the color is uniformly tawny, whitening on the under parts, and the tip of the tail is black. This great cat bears much resemblance to an ungrown lione . It is noted as having the most extensive latitudinal range of any of the Felidæ, its habitat extending from British America to Patagonia. It was formerly common in wooded and especially mountainous parts of the United States, and is still 1298 sometimes found in the east, though now most common in the Rocky Mountains and other mountains of the west. Also called puma, panther or “ painter, ” red tiger, moun tain lion, American lion, and catamount.