WILD BEASTS

THE ELEPHANT.

[From a photograph by Gambier Bolton. Copyright.]

Wild Beasts

A STUDY OF THE CHARACTERS AND HABITS OF THE
ELEPHANT, LION, LEOPARD, PANTHER, JAGUAR,
TIGER, PUMA, WOLF, AND GRIZZLY BEAR

BY
J. HAMPDEN PORTER

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1894

TO
Captain John G. Bourke
U. S. ARMY
IN TOKEN OF FRIENDSHIP
AND IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE TIME
WHEN WE STUDIED TOGETHER