THE PENNSYLVANIA LION OR PANTHER. 15 



tory is an authority, in speaking of the Cougar dc 

 Pennsylvanic, says : '*It is low on its legs, has a 

 longer tail than the Western puma ; it is described as 

 five feet six inches "in length, tail two feet six inches; 

 height before, one foot nine inches ; behind, one foot 

 ten inches." Dr. C. Hart Merriam says thai the head 

 of the Adirondack panther was proportionately small. 

 The head of the Pennsylvania panther, according to 

 the concensus of opinion, was large and round. George 

 G. Hastings says that the panthers he killed had heads 

 "like bulldogs." Of the three mounted specimens 

 now in existence, all of which are fortunately mounted 

 with the skulls, the heads are large. The size of the 

 head and jaws of the specimen in the Museum at State 

 College, which is magnificently mounted, is the most 

 noticeable feature of the manikin. The hair of the 

 female panther was somewhat longer than the males. 

 Many naturalists claim that the tails of the female 

 cougars are shorter than the males. Pennsylvania 

 panther hunters aver that the tails of the females were 

 as long as the males, although very few females were 

 captured. The Pennsylvania lion was known by a 

 great variety of names. William Penn called it the 

 panther — why, cannot be imagined; it is colored very 

 differently from the pantherc of Northern Africa, 

 which he probably had in mind. The backwoodsmen 

 called it the painter ; there is a Painter Run in Tioga 

 County, a Painterville in Westmoreland County, and 

 painter hollows and painter rocks innumerable all over 

 the State. Semi-humorous persons alluded to it as the 



