596 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



Colorado. — Common in Park County in 1874, according to Dr. J. A. Allen. (Bull. 

 Essexlnst., vi, 1874, pp. 43-66). Elsewhere in the mountains, according toDrs. Cones 

 and Yarrow. (Report Wheelers Survey, v, 1875, pp. 35-129.) Mr. Hallock states 

 that they occur in the North Park, in Summit County. (Sportsman's Gazetteer, 1877, 

 p. 22.) Three specimens were received from Canon City in 1877 by the National 

 Museum. See also Forest and Stream, xxx, 1888, p. 243 (Rifle Creek). 



Connecticut. — Linsley, in 1842, saw a specimen reported to have heen killed in the 

 northern part of the State. (Amer. Journ. ScL, xliii, 1842, pp. 345-354.) 



Dakota. — Mr. G. B. Grinnell saw a single individual in the Black Hills in 1874, but 

 believed them to be quite numerous in that region. (Ludlow, Rep't of a Reconnais- 

 sance of the Black Hills, 1874, pp. 77-85.) Mr. Vernon Bailey also learned in 1887 

 that they were considered quite common in the Black Hills, and saw a young one 

 which ha«i been captured there. (Rep't Ornithologist, Dept. Agric, 1888, p. 431.) 

 Hoffman reported in 1877 that specimens were occasionally captured in the oak groves 

 on Oak Creek in the vicinity of Grand River. (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xix, 

 1877, pp. 94-102.) 



Florida.— Dr. J. A. Allen stated in 1870 that the Puma was not uufrequent in the 

 more unsettled parts of the State. (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoology, n, 1870, p. 186.) May- 

 nard in 18^3 reported that it was common in the interior and more southern parts of 

 the State, but was not fouud on the Keys. (Quart. Journ. Boston Zool. Soc, n, 1883, 

 Nos. 1-4.) The late Mr. Judson, however, writing under the pseudonym of "Ned 

 Buntline," reported that a Puma was captured on Key Largo. (Forest and Stream, 

 XIII, 1880, p. 994.) See also a note on one killed in Manatee County in 1887, in Amer- 

 ican Field, xxvin, 1887, p. 7. 



Georgia. — Fouud along the water-courses in this State thirty years ago, according 

 to Audubon. (Audubon and Bachman, Quadrupeds of North America, n, 1851, p. 312.) 

 According to Mr. Hallock the scream of the Puma is not uncommonly heard in Barlow 

 County and in the hill country generally ; also in Thomas County, in the vicinity of 

 McDonald. (Sportsman's Gazetteer, 1877, pp. 37-40.) 



Idaho. — Mr. Hallock reported in 1877 that Pumas could be found in the mountains 

 and forests of Idaho County. (Sportsman's Gazetteer, 1877, p. 42.) A person writing 

 under the pseudonym of " Nica" reports that he killed a Puma in Northern Idaho in 

 1888. (Forest and stream, xxx, 1888, p. 308.) 



Illinois. — Keunicott in 1855 stated that a single individual had been known to occur 

 in Cook County. (Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc, i, 1855, pp. 577-580.) The species 

 has probably disappeared from the State. Professor Leidy calls attention to a fossil 

 skull found 30 feet below the surface, in the bed of the Kaskaskia River, in Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1888, p. 9. 



Indiana. — I have not met with any mention of the occurrence of the Puma in this 

 State. Haymond omits it from his list of mammals observed in Franklin County in 

 1869, published in the Report of the Geological Survey of Indiana for that year. 



Indian Territory. — Woodhonse in 1853 remarks of this species : " It was observed in 

 the Indian Territory in the neighborhood of a swamp." He does not give the loca- 

 tion of the swamp. (Sitgreaves, Exped. down the Zuni and Colo. Rivers, 1853, p. 47.) 



Iowa. — Dr. C. A. White writes in 1869 as follows: "The panther has been known 

 within our limits but very rarely." (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xm, 1869, p. 181, 

 foot-note. ) 



Kansas.— Accordiug to Mr. F. W. Cragin, four Pumas were captured and three 

 others seen in the counties of Harper, Barbour and Comanche in the winter of 

 1884-'85. (Bull. Washburn Laboratory of Nat. Hist., i, 1885, p. 42.) 



Kentucky. — I am obliged to Prof. John R. Procter, director of the geological survey 

 of Kentucky, for a letter regarding the occurrence of the Puma in Kentucky, written 

 at his request by Mr. K. T. Durrett, of Louisville. On the authority of manuscripts 

 in his possession, Mr. Durrett states that John Sanders killed a Puma in a, chestnut- 

 oak tree at the Knobs, i\ or 7 miles south of Louisville, in 1784. A young Butna was 



