128 MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. 



Type locality. Pennsylvania. 



Fauna! distribution. Northeastern United States, intergrading in Florida 

 and Louisiana into F. c. coryi (Bangs), in western Texas into F. c. aztecus 

 (Merriam), in the Rocky Mountains into F. c. hippolestes (Merriam) and in 

 the Cascade Mts. into F. c. oregonensis ( Rafinesque ) . 



Distribution in Pa. and N. J. Originally found in every part of both 

 states, but always more abundant in the Alleghany mountains. In N. J. it 

 became extinct in the early part of the ipth century, the last probably occur- 

 ring in Sussex or Warren Cos. as strays from northeastern Pa. No dates of 

 their extinction in N. J. have been secured. In Pa. they have not been 

 killed, so far as I can substantiate the accounts which have been published, 

 since 1871, though one statement would imply that 2 had been killed in 

 Clinton or Clearfield Co. in 1891. 



Records in Pa. Bedford, Blair and Huntingdon Cos. "Among the moun- 

 tains of the headwaters of the Juniata River, as we were informed, the Congar 

 is so abundant that one man has killed for some years from 2 to 5, and one 

 very hard winter, 7." It has 3 or 4 young, 5 are a rare exception. The usual 

 number is 2. Audubon and Bachman, Quad. N. Amer., 1851, vol. 2, p. 311. 



Berks Co. " Last Wednesday " a panther was killed in Albany township 

 in the Blue Mountains by Thomas Anson. Weight 146 Ibs. Length, 4 ft. 

 5}^ inches, plus 2 feet of tail. Mr. Pfleger was also in the party. Signed, 

 O. D. S., Hamburg, Berks Co., Aug. 10, 1874. See Forest and Stream, 1874, 

 vol. 3, p. 67. 



Bradford Co. " Dr. W. S. Lewis, of Canton, tells me that Post. Wilcox, a 

 grandson of Sheff. Wilcox, when a boy fifteen years old, in the winter of 1858, 

 killed a panther in Albany Twp. The doctor gives the particulars of the hunt 

 for the panther. I have no doubt of the truth of his statement." Cleveland, 

 1901. "Mr. A. D. McCrassey, who is at present Chief of Police of Canton 

 borough, informs me that, in 1869, with his wife, and a Mr. Northrop and his 

 wife, while taking a Sunday after-dinner stroll along the track of the Barclay 

 R. R., not far from Greenwood, Bradford Co., Pa., an animal jumped on the 

 track a few rods in front of them, halted, turned and looked at them a 

 moment, then disappeared in the woods, making tremendous leaps. Descrip- 

 tion : light yellow color, body five feet long, tail apparently as long as its 

 body ; head, large and round ; ears, short and erect ; eyes, large, round and 

 glaring. Mr. McCrassey does not name the animal." Cleveland, 1901. 



Cambria Co. Panthers are stated by Hallock to be found near Ebensburg 

 in 1877. See Sportsman's Gazetteer, 1877, p. 140. On Stony Creek, 12 

 miles from Johnstown, a Mr. KaufFman and companion found a mangled 

 sheep from which they tracked a panther to a nearby ledge, from which, with 

 dogs, they dislodged it. It took refuge in a cave close by after being wounded. 

 Digging down to the cave from above, they killed it. This was about the 

 year 1875. Shields, 1901. 



