66 BULLETIN NO. VII. 
The most obvious external peculiarity of the genus Felis is 
the long and, frequently, tufted tail, the comparatively short 
legs, the lack of ear tufts and the (commonly) circular pupil. 
The dentition is 3, +, 3,4. The milk dentition is 3, }, 3, there 
being no distinction into molars and premolars. 
Felis concolor L. 
THE PUMA. See Plate II.) 
Felis concolor LINNEUS. Mantissa, 1771, p. 522. 
ERXLEBEN. Syst. Anim., 1777, p. 511. 
SCHREBER. Saeugethiere, vol. III, 1778, p. 394. 
BoDDOERT. El. Anim., I. 1784, p. 90. 
CUVIER. Recherches sur. esp. viv. d. grandchats, 1809. 
GRIFFITH. Class Quadrim., order Carniy., 1821. 
HARLAN. Fauna Amer., 1825, p. 94. 
TEMMINCK. Monog. de Mammif., I, 1827, p. 139. 
GRIFFITH, etal. Cuvier’s Animal King., V., 1827, p. 163. 
FISHER. Synopsis Mammalium, 1829, p. 197. 
DouGuty. Cabinet Nat. Hist., 1830, p. 190. 
FULLER. Period of gestation, Proc. Comm. 
Zool. Soc., Lond.,II, 1832, p. 62. 
MARTIN. Proc. Zool. Soc., Lond., I, 1833, p. 120. 
WAGNER. Sup.Schreb. Saeugth., 184, p. 461. 
DEKAY. N. Y. Zoology, 1842, p. 47. 
AUDUBON AND BACHMAN. Quad. N. A. II, 1851. 
BURMEISTER. Thiere Braziliens, I, 1854. 
BAIRD. Mammals, 1857, p. 83. 
GIEBEL. Saeugethiere, 1859, p. 876. 
Felis discolor SCHREBER. Saeugeth., III, 1778. 
Felis puma SHAW. Gen. Zool., I, 1830, p. 358. 
TRAIL. Remarks on Genus Felis. 
Mem. Werner Nat. Hist. Soc., 1823. 
BARTLETT. Breeding of larger Felide, etc., Proc. 
Zool. Soc. London, 1861, p. 140. 
FITzINGER. Revision der zur natuerlich. Familie der 
Katzen gehoerig. Formen. Sitz. math.—nat. Cl. 
Kk. Akad, Wiss. Wien, 1868-1869. 
Putnam. American Panther. Am. Nat., 1871, p. 692. 
CovEs. Specimen of a cougar, Am. Sportsman, Jan. 1874. 
Batry. Felis concolor, Am. Sportsman, Apr. 1874. 
OsER. Florida panther, Forest and Stream, Dec. 1874.— 
Standard Natural History. 
Few of our native animals have excited the imagination, not 
to say fears, of the early settler of America to the same ex- 
tent as this largest truly North American cat. To this fact 
must be due the great variety of names by which it is com- 
