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Cameron Co. — None have been killed in 20 years in the Emporium region. 

 Larrabee, 1896; "The last date of a panther that I can give is of the two 

 killed down on the Driftwood, between Stirling and Driftwood, in 1851, by 

 Isaac Rammage, who was an old hunter at that time." — Dickinson, 1901. 



Centre Qo. — "James Moore killed one in Centre Co. in 1893." — Nelson, 

 I goo. The only specimen of Pa. panther known to me is in the museum of 

 State College at Bellefonte. It was presented to the State by Samuel E. 

 Brush, who shot it in Susquehanna Co., Pa., in 1856. It was exhibited in the 

 Pa. zoological display at the Chicago World's Fair, 1892. — Rhoads, fide 

 Friant. A Centre Co. panther is recorded in the table of bounties paid by 

 that Co. in 1886, as given in the book "Diseases and Enemies of Poultry " 

 by Warren, p. 675. 



Clearfield and Centre Cos. — The last known to me was killed by James 

 David and Nick Hastings on Big Run of Beech Creek, Clinton Co. — Pfoutz. 

 •"Sometime during the year 1871 George Hastings and James David while 

 hunting on Big Run " killed two panthers which their dogs treed, for whose 

 scalps the county paid ;?i2 each. This was in Beech Creek township. — See 

 Maynard's Historical View of Clinton Co., 1875, p. 122. 



Relative to the above statements, I give the following letter kindly answer- 

 ing my inquiries of an earlier date under caption of — 



" Beech Creek, Feb'y 28th, 1901. 



" Dear Sir: Replying to your letter of inquiry of Jan'y 30, 1901, will say the 

 panthers were killed by my brother, George G. Hastings, in December, 1871. 

 The first one was killed on the middle branch, of the ' Big Run,' J4 mile 

 above Winslow's Splash dam. Was treed by a large bull-dog. My brother 

 ^hot it through top of shoulders. It jumped to the ground. The dog caught 

 and held it "until my brother ran up and shot it through the head, killing it in- 

 stantly. The day following the second one was trailed from where the first 

 one was killed to the swamp branch of " Big Run," when the bull-dog was put 

 ■on the trail. The panther finally took refuge under a large rock. The dog 

 -pursued it, caught it, and dragged it forth, when they had a hard fight. The 

 panther succeeded in breaking loose from the dog and sprang up on top of 

 the rock, where it remained in safety until my brother came up and shot it 

 through the heart. This one was killed near the mouth of ' Raccoon Run,' 

 a tributary of the swamp branch of the ' Big Run.' The panthers were male 

 and female. The skins measured from end of nose to end of tail : female, 

 <ight feet ; male, nine feet. 



"Your letter was mislaid, hence the delay in reply. 



(Signed) " E. H. Hastings." 



£P. S.] — " My brother had the panther skins made into a lap robe, which 



