THE PUMA, OK AMERICAN LION. 595 



the Union, dating from the beginning of the century. Like many other 

 large American animals, however, the Puma has retired before the ad 

 vance of civilization, and in many of the more thickly populated States 

 it is improbable that even stragglers could be found at the present day.* 



* The localities in tlie several States and Territories in which individuals have been 

 captured or seen, so far as they are recorded in the literature at coniniaud, are given 

 in the following list : 



Upper Canada.— A specimen from this region was seen by Audubon. (Audubon and 

 Bachman, Quadrupeds of North America, n, 1851, p. 312. ) A second specimen was 

 killed near the city of Ottawa. (William Couper, in Forest and Stream, vm, 1677, pp. 

 299,300. Communicated by Dr. Elliott Coues.) King reports having seen one which 

 was killed by Dr. Maitland near St. Catherine's. (King, Sportsman and Naturalist 

 in Canada, 1866, p. 16.) There is an improbable narration of a Puma having at- 

 tempted to attack some men in a boat near St. Francis on the St. Lawrence River, 

 in Small's Animals of North America, 1864, p. 49. The size, weight, and other par- 

 ticulars are, however, given. 



Manitoba. — The Puma is not included by Mr. E. E. Thompson in his recent list of 

 the mammals of Manitoba. (Trans. Manitoba Sci. & Hist. Soc., No. 23, May, 1886.) 



British Columbia. — Abundant in Vancouver's Island, and ranges to 56° north latitude 

 in British Columbia, according to J. C. Hughes. (Forest and Stream, xxi, p. 103.) 



Alabama. — Hallock states that the Puma is occasional in De Kalb County. (Sports- 

 man's Gazetteer, 1877, p. 3.) 



Arizona. — Generally distributed, but found most frequently in the wooded and 

 mountainous portions of the Territory. (Coues, American Naturalist, i, 1867, pp. 

 281-292.) Drs. Coues aud Yarrow killed two specimens in the Triplet Mountains. 

 (Wheeler's Survey, v, Zoology, 1875, pp. 40,41). Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, TJ. S. Army, 

 has kindly given me measurements of nineteen Pumas killed by him in Arizona 

 between December, 1884, and February, 1888. Four were killed near Fort Verde ; six, 

 in the Mogollon Mountains; four, at the head of Beaver Creek, Yavapai County ; and 

 five, on the Verde River. 



Arkansas. — Nuttall reported the occurrence of the Puma on the Arkansas River, 

 north of Little Rock, in 1819. (Travels into Arkansas Territory, 1821, p. 118.) Mr. 

 Hallock states that the dense caue-brakes, swamps, and forests of Cross County are 

 infested by Pumas. They are occasionally found also in the dense caue-brakes along 

 the Red River, in Jackson County, and great numbers in Prairie County, in the cane- 

 brakes between the White and Cache Rivers; also in Phillips Couuty, in the vicin- 

 ity of Helena, in the woods; in Pulaski County, near Little Rock ; aud in St. Francis 

 County. (Sportsman's Gazetteer, 1877, pp. 8, 9.) One is reported to have been killed 

 near Bayou Bartholomew, in Jefferson County, in 1883. {Forest and Stream, xx, 1883, 

 p. 125.) There is also an acconut of a hunt on Crooked Bayou in the southeastern 

 part of the State in 1887 in Forest and Stream, wyiii, 1887, p. 323. 



California. — Abundant throughout the State, as appears from the statements of 

 various authors. Mr. H. W. Henshaw. however, stated in 1875 that the species had 

 apparently disappeared from the lower and more thickly settled portions. (W'heeler's 

 Survey, Report of 1876, pp. 305-312.) Mr. Hallock mentions the Puma as occurring 

 in 1877 in Butte, Humboldt, Klamath, Trinity, Mendocino, Los Angeles, Marin, 

 Nevada, Santa Clara, Shasta, Siskiyou, Sonoma, and Tehama Counties. (Sports- 

 man's Gazetteer, 1877, pp. 11-18. ) Specimens were obtained in Shasta < lounty iu 1884 

 by Mr. C. H. Towusend. See also Forest and Stream, xtx, 1882, p. 208; xx, 1883, 

 p. 203; xxin, 1885, p. 497, (McCloud River); \\\, L885, p. 46 (Concjo Valley); wviii. 

 1887, p. 493; xxx, 1888, pp. 239, 350, 411. American Field, \\i. 1884, p. 151; \xv, 

 1886, p. 343 (San Buenaventura); xxvn, 1887, p. 105 (Georgetown). 



