THE PUMA, OR AMERICAN LION. 599 



a Puma was killed iu the northeastern part of the State aboul fifteen years ago, and 



adds: " li is asserted by apparently reliable persons (hunters) that a few of these 

 are yet to be found in Cameron and Potter Counties." 



Rhode Island. — No record of its occurrence in this State lias been found. 



South Carolina. — See North Carolina. 



Tennessee.— Heywood, in his Early History of Tennessee, mentions the Puma as 

 among the wild animals of the State. Mr. Hallock states in 1877 that the cane- 

 breaks of Shelby county afforded fine grounds for hunting Pumas. (Sportsman's 

 Gazetteer, 1877, p. 153.) There is a report that a Puma was killed on Wheatley's 

 plantation, 8 miles south of Memphis, in the Chicago Field, Xlir, 1880, p. 11. (See North 

 Carolina). 



Texan. — Common all over rhe State in 1889, according to Professor Cope. (Bull. IT. 

 S. Nat. Mus., No. 17, 1880, p. '.».) There are specimeus in the National Museum from 

 Eagle Pass and the Brazos River, collected respectively in 18513 and 1857. 



Utah. — The Puma, according to Dr. J. A. Allen, is not common, but quite generally 

 distributed in the Great Salt Lake valley. (Bull. Essex Inst., VI, 1874, pp. 43-6G.) 

 Drs. Cones and Yarrow state that they occur in eastern and middle Utah but are not 

 numerous. (Rept. Wheeler's Survey, V, Zoology, 1875, p. 40.) 



Vermont. — Thompson mentions a Puma killed iu Manchester in 1850, and states 

 that the species had become very rare at that time. He knew of one killed in Rox- 

 bury iu 1821. (Z. Thompson, Nat. Hist, of Vermont, 185::. p. 38; Appendix, p. 12.) At 

 an earlier time one was killed in Bennington. It had taken a calf out of a pen where 

 the fence was 4 feet high. (Williams's History of Vermont, 171I4, pp. 86, 87.) Dr. J. A. 

 Allen saw a specimen which was killed on Pine Hill, Weathersfield, in 1867. (Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., i, 1863-1869, p. 153.) A Puma was reported killed in West Wards- 

 boro' in 1875, and another near Brattleboro' in 1885. (See Forest and stream, V, 1875, 

 p. 300, and xxv, 1885, p. 306.) 



Virginia, — A specimen was received from Capon Springs in 1850 by the Natioual 

 Museum. 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. (Sportsman's Gazetteer, 1877, 

 p. 167.) 



Washington. — Dr. Cooper pronounced it very common in 1S59. He mentions one 

 captured while swimming in the Columbia River. (Nat. Hist. Washington Territory, 

 1859, j». 74.) A specimen collected by Dr. George Gibbs in 1855 was received from 

 Fort Steilacoom by the Natioual Museum. Dr. Suckley, in 1859, reported the species 

 especially abundant in Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Nisqually Counties. (L. c, p. 108.) 

 There are references to its occurrence in Cedar Mountain, Black RUer, and White 

 River, at recent dates. (See Forest and Stream, XXX, 1888, p. 308; American Field, 

 xxi, 1884, p. 302.) 



West Virginia. — I am in possession of a letter from Mr. W. II. Hill, of Gurley Bridge, 

 to Mr. Randolph I. Geare, dated August 14, 1890, in which if is stated that six or more 

 Pumas have been killed in Webster County during the last eight or ten years, and 

 that it has been ascertained from reliable sources that, Pumas now infest the wilds of 

 the Alleghany range in the Counties of Randolph and Webster, and are also to bo 

 found in Logan County, near the Cumberland ranee, individuals have also been 

 taken in the Counties of Randolph and Greenbrier. 



Wisconsin. — Lapham, on the authority of Dr. Hoy, refers to it as occurring m north- 

 ern Wisconsin, in his catalogue of the animals of the State, published in 1852. ( Fauna, 

 and Flora of Wisconsin, prepared for the State Agricultural Society, p. 339.) 



Wyoming. — Dr. J. A. Allen, in 1874, writes of the Puma as follows: " More or less 

 common in the timber of the Medicine Bow Range, as it is also throughout the tim- 

 bered portions of the Rocky Mountains." (Bull. Essex Inst., vi. 1874, pp. 13-66.) 

 According to Mr. Hallock it was to be found, in 1877, in Laramie and Sweetwater 

 Counties. (Sportsman's Gazetteer, 1877. p. 181.) 



