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fat over the entire body. It measures as follows: total length, 

 6 feet 7 inches; tail 30 inches, hind foot 11 inches. Its appear- 

 ance is as follows : General body color cinnamon rufous, becom- 

 ing darker on the middle of the back (chestnut), and on the top 

 of the head (hazel) ; chin, throat, median line of abdomen, and 

 inner surface of thighs, rather abruptly pure white, interrupted 

 on the breast, which is like the sides but somewhat duller; inner 

 surface of fore legs more grayish. Face about the color of sides ; 

 black patches at the base of whiskers sharply defined and con- 

 spicuous; upper lips, between this marking and nostrils, pure 

 white. A whitish area above the eye, and another below, the 

 latter merging into the white of the throat; upper surface of 

 cars very dark, almost black. Tail, the color of the back on the 

 dorsal surface, duller below; abruptly black tipped, this mark 

 extending about 90 mm. from the tip above, about 50 mm. below. 



One of the skulls obtained at Friendly Cove (no. 12450), has 

 tlic t<>i> of the head very much malformed, apparently as the 

 result of an injury received years before. There is a deep groove 

 extending diagonally from just behind the left post-orbital 

 process to just above the right one, and this whole part of the 

 skull is distorted and with portions of the bones missing. The 

 three left upper incisors with the portion of the premaxillary in 

 which they grew, are gone, and the edges of the bone smooth 

 and rounded. It is difficult to see how the animal could have 

 survived such injuries. 



Another skull (no. 12452) was taken from the carcass of an 

 animal killed by strychnine, and the whole frontal region is torn 

 to shreds, the injuries having been done by the animal's own 

 claws, in the agonies induced by the poison. The nasals are torn 

 through nearly to the palate, and even the thick heavy bones 

 above and surrounding the eyes are torn away or pierced through 

 in a score of places. 



There is not at hand material to indicate the relationship of 

 the Vancouver Island puma to the animal occurring on the main- 

 land farther south. A skull of a male from Mount Shasta, 

 however, is not to be distinguished from those in the former 

 series, and some female skulls from points still farther south in 

 California are very similar to the single female from Nootka 

 Hound. 



