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 f, f, -f, |. The milk dentition is f, J, f , 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. Ill, 1778, p. 394. 



BODDOERT. El. Anim ., I. 1784, p. 90. 



CUVIER. Rechercbes sur. esp. viv. d. grandchats, 1809. 



GRIFFITH. Class Quadrim., order Garni v., 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 Mammaiium, 1829, p. 197. 



DOUGHTY. Cabinet Nat. Hist., 1830, p. 190. 



FULLER. Period of gestation, Proc. Comrn. 



Zool. Soc., Lond.,11, 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., Ill, 1778. 

 Felis puma SHAW. Gen. Zool., 1, 1830, p. 358. 



TRAIL. Remarks on Genus Felis. 



Mem. Werner Nat. Hist. Soc., 1823. 

 BARTLETT. Breeding of larger Felida3, etc., Proc. 



Zool. Soc. London, 1861, p. 140. 

 FITZINGER. Eevision der zur natuerlich . Familie der 



Katzen gehoerig. Formen. Sitz. math. nat. 01. 



K. Akad, Wiss. Wien, 1868-1869. 

 PUTNAM. American Panther. Am. Nat., 1871, p. 692. 

 COUES. Specimen of a cougar, Am. Sportsman, Jan. 1874. 

 BATTY. Felis concolor, Am. Sportsman, Apr. 1874. 

 OBER. 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- 



