THE PENNSYLVANIA LION OR PANTHER. 45 



Snow Shoe, Centre County, during the Civil War. 

 James Lebo, of Lucullus, Lycoming County, tracked 

 two panthers across his fields in February, 1909. They 

 were traA^eling in a northeasterly direction. During 

 the summer of that year panther cries were heard at 

 different points along the Coudersport pike, which 

 runs past the Lebo home. Across the road from this 

 gentleman's residence is the swale where the mangled 

 bod}'- of little Edna Cryder was found in 1896. Pan- 

 ther tracks were observed on the Pike by Dr. Rothrock 

 in 1913 ; in Detwiler Hollow, in the Seven Mountains, 

 in the same year, by several hunters. In November, 

 1912, three rabbit hunters scared up a panther which 

 was sleeping" under the prostrate top of a pine tree, in 

 Detwiler. In November, 1913, several farmers heard 

 panther cries, and one reliable person saw a panther 

 in his barnyard in Logan Valley,- near Altoona. Johns- 

 town papers reported a panther as doing much dam- 

 age to deer and other game on Laurel Ridge, in Som- 

 erset County, in the same month. There is probably 

 a panther path leading into Pennsylvania from the 

 Maryland and West A'irginia Mountains. This is 

 proved by the killing of a panther in November, 1913, 

 several miles north of Washington, D. C. This wan- 

 derer evidently heard or scented the mountain lions at 

 Rocky Creek Park Zoo, lost his bearings, became over- 

 confident and paid the death penalty. The path must 

 lead up the Laurel Ridge to Blue Knob, where it di- 

 verges, one line heading north through Centre County 

 to Potter County, the other northeast along the Bald 



