APPENDIX. 27 



Page 294. 

 "Wolf." 



Nearly eighty years have elapsed since Orel prophesied the early ex- 

 tinction of the Wolf in Pennsylvania. One of these animals was killed 

 in Potter Co., Pennsylvania in 1891. They have been reported since 

 that time from Monroe County, aud it is the concurrent testimony of re- 

 liable hunters in the western parts of the state that several Wolves con- 

 tinue to exist in the Alleghany wilderness. Since my note on the 

 Mexican Wolf, page 7 of this Appendix was printed I find that the name 

 Canis occtdentalis Richardson, is antedated by Canis nubilus Say (Long's 

 Exp. R. Mts., i, 1823, 168, (foot note)). The Gray Wolf of northern 

 N. America should stand Canis lupus nubilus (Say). 



Pages 294, 295. 

 "Indian Dog." 



The problem of the relationships between wild and domestic Dogs and 

 Wolves is not much nearer solution than in 1815. The reader may get 

 a fair summary of what we know on this question in Mivart's Monograph 

 of the Canidai. The final conclusion of Darwin, that domestic Dogs had 

 a multiple origin, arising from several race? of Wolves and Jackals and 

 at least one South American species, is indorsed by Mr. E. Harting and 

 not denied by Prof. Mivart. 



It is not improbable that the Indian Dog traces its decent from Old- 

 World forms introduced to America in prehistoric times. Its con- 

 sanguinity with the Coyote, Canis lattans. is well proven. As we go 

 north beyond the habitat of the Coyote this admixture decreases and, 

 in the Esquimaux Dog, the salient characters closely approach those 

 of the Gray Wolf. Mr. Bartlett asserts that the Esquimaux Dog is 

 nothing more than a domesticated Wolf. 



Page 296. 

 "Couguar or Panther." 



Ord evidently had no personal knowledge of the Panther, and from 

 what follows it seems likely he was not sure of its presence in Pennsyl- 

 vania, where they still exist and are occasionly taken by the hunters. 



Page 296* 

 "Lynx." 



The confusion of names and identities, existing in Ord's day on ac- 

 count of the use of the name "Catamount," has been perpetuated. It 

 is still applied by hunters to the Lynx, Lynx canadensis, the Wild Cat, 

 L. rufus and the Panther, Felis ccmcolor. 



The promiscuous use of these names resulted also in the multiplication 



