no HUNTING AND FISHING IN FLORIDA. 



snarling- face over the sights of my rifle), he will probably prove to 

 be a very old and unusually large male J^clis con color -floridana. 



Panthers kill many small mammals, as well as deer, when they 

 can get them. They are very fond of hogs, and a good place to 

 look for a panther is in the vicinity of some drove of semi-wild pigs. 

 When once a panther becomes a " pig eater" he prefers pig to any 

 other kind of food. 



-LYNX RUFU5 FLORIDANUS {Raf.). 

 Florida Wildcat. 



Common. Some specimens are large and spotted on the sides 

 and flanks, and are more rufous than Northern specimens. I have 

 killed one old male which measured forty inches from tip of nose to 

 tail, and stood twenty inches high at the shoulder. 



Family CANID.E. The Wolves and Foxes. 



CANIS LUPUS QRISEO=ALBUS (Z/////.). 

 Wolf. 



Still not uncommon in some localities. In the vicinity of the 

 Big Cypress and in extreme Southern Florida wolves still 

 occur in some numbers. A wolf was seen in the spring of 1895 

 near Little Fish Crossin*^, southwest of Lake Worth. The^' are 

 usualh" black, although examples have been killed which were 

 brown, shading into gray on the belly and breast. 



I have heard of gray woh'es in Florida, but ha^'e ne\er seen 

 one. Robert Osceola killed a female with two cubs near the Big 

 Cypress in the spring of 1894. He captured the little ones alive 

 and took them to his camp : but they would not eat, and, after 

 keeping them a day or two, he killed them. The mother and both 

 pups were black. 



UROCYON CINEREO - ARQENTATUS {Mull.). 



Gray Fox, 



Common, l^^lorida foxes are somewhat smaller and grayer on the 

 l-)ack than those found farther north. 



