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wounded with a revolver shot was finally driven into some 

 brush, surrounded, and shot, but not before it had killed a dog 

 and a horse. Nelson and Goldman mention a specimen ex- 

 amined from Goldthwaite, Mills County, Texas. 



Concerning the Arizona jaguar, the latter authors write that 

 at the present time its range marks the most northern point 

 where the species is known. Formerly, according to old rec- 

 ords, it ranged into extreme southern California, and in recent 

 years, "while not very abundant, it appears to be a regular 

 resident of southeastern Arizona. " They examined specimens 

 from Cibecue, Greaterville, and Nogales in that State. That 

 jaguars occurred in southern California in the first half of the 

 last century is attested by Merriam (1919), who quotes several 

 older accounts: that of Langsdorff, 1814, who mentions it as 

 among the species of the Monterey region ; Beechey (Narrative, 

 1831), who in 1826 says it was reported to be found in the 

 country between San Francisco and Monterey; and Saint- 

 Amant, who included it in 1854 as a California species. He 

 further calls attention to a circumstantial account of the finding 

 of a jaguar family in the Tehachapi Mountains by the famous 

 James Capen Adams about the> middle of the last century, as 

 detailed in Hittell's (1860) account of the adventures of this 

 old hunter. The Indians of a former generation living in 

 southern California apparently were well acquainted with this 

 jaguar, and Merriam (1919) was told by an old chief of the 

 Kammei tribe that in the Cuyamaca Mountain region in San 

 Diego County it was there known as "big-spotted lion" in their 

 native tongue. Another early writer, Pattie, mentions one 

 killed on an island at the mouth of the Colorado River about 

 1822. Other Indian records, as gathered by William D. Strong 

 (1926) in this region, indicate that the jaguar formerly occurred 

 in the mountains bordering the Mohave Desert and that the 

 "old people made a practice of following jaguar and mountain 

 lion trails in order to uncover and eat the deer remains the 

 animals buried. The last jaguar that his informant could re- 

 member as having been killed in the region was near Palm 

 Springs, Calif., about 1860. In New Mexico the jaguar is now 

 rare if not quite extirpated. Bailey (1931) has summarized a 

 number of later occurrences of jaguars in the southern part of 

 the State: Grafton, in 1900; Ute Creek, San Miguel County, 

 1902-3; near Fulton, 1903; Datil Mountains, 1902; Clanton 



