Jaguar

Plate VII: "Distribution.- America; from Louisiana, Texas, and Northern Mexico to about the Rio Negro, on the northern confines of Patagonia. Habits.- Although in the greater part of its range the Jaguar is an inhabitant of vast primeval forests, where it climbs with the agility of a Monkey, yet it was formerly found in considerable numbers on the open grassy pampas of Argentina, where, however, it has now been well nigh exterminated. Throughout South America, the Jaguar is commonly known as the Tiger (Tigre of the Spaniards)"