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intergrade with any other form, and it is doubtful if it ever did.* It 

 must, therefore, be given full specific rank. 



Compared with true F. concolor Linn., F. coryiie a huge Puma, and is 

 indeed but little smaller than the giant of the Rocky Mountains, F. hip- 

 polestes Merriam. Its long limbs, small feet, and rich ferruginous color 

 are the best characters by which to distinguish it from other North Amer 

 ican pumas. It needs no comparison with the small pumas of northern 

 South America or of Central America. 



The Bangs collection now contains six specimens of F. coryi (skins and 

 skulls complete), all taken by F. R. Hunter in the same general region of 

 Florida, namely, the great wilderness back of Sebastian, in Brevard and 

 Osceola counties. Mr. Hunter writes that three of these pumas, the type 

 an old female and the young female, were all killed together on New 

 Year's day, 1898. 



*Mr. F. W. True, in his monograph on the Puma, under the head of 

 Virginia, says : " Mr. Hallock makes the very interesting statement that 

 the Puma is found in the Dismal Swamp. I find no other reference to 

 its occurrence in the low coast lands of the South Atlantic States except in 

 Florida" (p. 599). 



