REVISION OF THE PUMAS 583 



than in coryi from Florida ; bullae smaller ; basioccipital broader ; 

 teeth smaller and more slender, particularly the large upper premolars 

 (carnassial and pm 1). 



Remarks. — Felis cougiiar Kerr, from Pennsylvania, although not 

 heretofore recognized, appears to be specifically distinct from its near- 

 est allies. Unfortunately specimens are so exceedingly rare that I have 

 not been able to obtain a skin for comparison v^'ith the other forms of 

 the group, and have examined only two skulls. Both skulls are 

 adult, and both are from the Adirondack Mountains in northeastern 

 New York (one from the east side, Essex County: No. 3811, 

 U. S. National Museum ; the other from the west side, probably 

 Hamilton County: No. 947, Merriam Collection). These skulls 

 are not marked for sex, but as one is larger than the other, and as the 

 upper carnassial teeth present the usual sexual differences in size, I 

 assume that one is a male (3811), the other a female (947). If this 

 assumption is correct, the male is considerably smaller than the male 

 of any other known species, while the female is about the same size as 

 adult females of concolor and aztectis. The skull appears to be smaller 

 in proportion to the size of the body than in the case of any other 

 species. 



Cranial measurements. — Two skulls from the Adirondacks, as- 

 sumed to be male and female (measurements of female in paren- 

 theses) : basal length 158 (154); zygomatic breadth 135 (128); 

 occipito-sphenoid length 59 (55.5) ; postpalatal length 83 (80) ; inter- 

 orbital breadth 36 (36) ; length of upper carnassial on cingulum 

 22.5 (20.5). 



FELIS CORYI Bangs. Florida Cougar. 



Felis concolor Jloridana CoKY , ' Hunting and Fishing in Florida,' pp. 109-110, 



1896. (Name preoccupied.) 

 Felis coryi 'Qx'i^GS, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiii, pp. 15-17, Jan., 1899. 



Type locality. — Florida. 



Characters. — Size large ; color of back deep intense ferruginous. 

 Head large; legs and tail long; feet small (Bangs) ; skull large and 

 rather massive, with enormous nasals. 



Color. ^ — Upperparts rich intense ferruginous on back (from top of 

 head to tail), becoming dull fulvous on sides, and fading gradually to 

 belly where the hairs are much longer and paler ; inguinal region 

 soiled buffy-whitish ; chin and lips yellowish buffy, becoming fulvous 

 on throat and breast ; ears and spot at base of whiskers black, the ear- 



^ The present description is based on a skin and 6 skulls from near Sebastian, 

 Florida, kindly loaned me by Outram Bangs. 



