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one of the dogs, and seriously wounded another." Cleveland, 1901. "In 

 relation to the panther seen by W. R. Lyon, Esq., late of Ward, Tioga Co., 

 Pa., Mr. Lyon was a hunter of large experience and a man of truth and 

 veracity. I got the date from his son, S. W. Lyon, a merchant of Canton, 

 Pa. In the winter of 1864 Mr. Lyon was returning home from Fall Brook, a 

 distance of four miles through the woods, when he discovered an animal 

 moving leisurely up a ravine toward the highway. When it reached the bridge 

 that spanned the gulf, it hesitated to cross the road, but when it saw Mr. 

 Lyon, who was standing about thirty yards from the bridge, it retreated with 

 srjeed across the ravine. Mr. Lyon told me that the panther was in plain 

 sight for several minutes ; that he examined the tracks made in the snow, and 

 that he was positive that it was a panther." Cleveland, 1901. 



Wyoming Co. " My father killed the last one, before my time." Rob- 

 inson. 



York Co. One was killed at Shrewsbury in 1729. See Watson's Annals, 

 1830, under " Game." 



Records in N.J. So far as can be ascertained by meagre and unsatisfac- 

 tory returns from my correspondents, the last N. J. panther was destroyed 

 about the third or fourth decade of the igth century (1830 to 1840). It is 

 probable that the last specimens lingered in the swamps of Cape May, Ocean 

 and Atlantic Cos. The only other part of the state where they may have 

 lingered so late would be Warren and Sussex Cos., along the upper Delaware 

 Valley, opposite Pike Co., Pa. Rhoads. 



Burlington Co. In 1748, an Indian killed a panther, which had just struck 

 down a buck deer, near Crosswicks. See Smith's Hist, of N. J., ed. 1879, 



P. 503. 



Camden Co. See quotations beyond from county treasurer records of 

 Ebenezer Hopkins, under article on the gray wolf. Rhoads. 



Cape May Co. " Though it is impossible to get instance or records, the 

 concurrent testimony in Cape May Co. among old hunters proves that pan- 

 thers were often found there 50 or 60 years ago. My grandmother remem- 

 bers one being killed in this Co. about 70 years ago." Hand, 1900. 



Mercer Co. The bones of panthers are found in Indian refuse heaps in 

 the vicinity of Trenton. Abbott, 1900. 



" West Jersey." The General Assembly of West Jersey convened at Bur- 

 lington, Nov. 4, 1697, enacted a bounty law for the extermination of wolves 

 and panthers on the following grounds : " It being seen by daily and detri- 

 mental experience that the wolves are very destructive to the cattle and crea- 

 tures of the inhabitants of this Province, and it being represented that the 

 panthers are also great destroyers of stock," etc. The bounty to " whatsoever 

 Christian shall kill and bring the head of a wolf of prey or panther to any 

 magistrate of any county of this Province " was 20 shillings. Negroes and 



