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To the westward there were formerly a few panthers in 

 southern Ontario and to the northward they extended into ex- 

 treme southern Quebec. But the Quebec records, according to 

 Seton, were long ago: Sherbrooke, about 1840; and near Sorel, 

 October 3, 1863; and there is one old record for the Toronto 

 region of Ontario. Ohio never seems to have had many of 

 these animals, or else they were early killed out. Kirtland, in 

 the Ohio Geological Survey for 1838, wrote that they had al- 

 ready disappeared but that there were Ohio specimens in the 

 museum of a Mr. Dorfeuille at Cincinnati. The bounty of $4 

 for a grown panther killed in Ohio was discontinued in 1818. 

 The last record for the State is perhaps of one killed in 1805 

 near Newark (Brayton, 1882). For Indiana, Lyon (1936) 

 writes that they were gone from the southern part of the State 

 at the time of the Prince of Wied's sojourn there in 1832-33 

 but that they persisted a little longer in the northern part. 

 A few final records take the panther to about 1838, with 

 additional vague reports up to about 1850, when Hahn be- 

 lieved it had become extinct in Indiana. Cory (1912) lists 

 several later occurrences in Illinois: the last one killed in Ma- 

 coupin County about 1840; one killed in Alexander County 

 about 1862; one in Daviess County in 1840. In Wisconsin one 

 was shot on the headwaters of Black River in December 1863, 

 and one was killed in Vernon County, near Westly, about 1870. 

 Possibly a few remained into the next decade. What is perhaps 

 the only extant specimen from this State is one recorded by 

 Schorger (1938) that was killed at Appleton, Wis., November 

 22, 1857, and is preserved at Lawrence College. The last 

 record of panther in Minnesota is of one killed at Sunrise, 

 Chisago County, in 1875 (Herrick). 



According to Bailey (1926) this species must once have 

 ranged over much of the Dakotas, but it is not mentioned by 

 Alexander Henry and his trappers in the early years of the last 

 century. After detailing a few records for western North 

 Dakota up to the late years of the nineteenth century, Bailey 

 mentions a report of a pair seen at Sully s Lake in 1907, and 

 comments: "It is not improbable that a few may still lurk in 

 the very rough Badlands country in the western part of the 

 State, but it is more probable that the last record for the State 

 has been made." He refers the Dakota panther to "Felis 

 hippolestes," the type locality of which is Wyoming in the 



