MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. I3I 



trail, and camping on the track when night overtook them, on the fourth day 

 they killed the panther, on the mountain east of the Loyalsock Creek, in Sul- 

 livan county. Pa., near Hillsgrove. They found ball in shoulder, probably 

 from the doctor's gun." — Cleveland, 1901. 



McKean Co. — The last one killed was by Eastman and Smith, about 1858 

 or '59. — Dickeson. 



Mifflin Co. — "About 45 years ago [1854?] one was killed in the Seven 

 Mountains near Milroy. I saw the stuffed skin shortly after." — Rothrock' 

 1900. 



Monroe and Pike Cos. — "A panther, I am assured by Mr. Eilenberger, has 

 not been killed in Pike Co. for 30 years, all reports to the contrary notwith- 

 standing." — Rhoads, Proc. A. N. Sci., Phila., 1894, p. 393. In October, 1873, 

 two were seen in Pike Co. — Forest and Stream, vol. i, p. 141. 



Northampton Co. — In 1827 a panther was killed 17 miles from Easton. — 

 See Watson's Annals, 1830. 



Potter Co. — " I have not heard or seen a panther in 4 or 5 years." — N. P. 

 Francis, Potter Co., 1893. All gone in Potter Co. Last killed many years 

 ago. I know of only i killed in this Co., viz., in 1841 by Henry Hurlburt. — 

 Austin, 1 901. 



Sullivan Co. — " Now rare. The county treasurer's report for 1834 showed 

 II300 paid for wolf and panther scalps " that year. — R. C. Taylor, Loudon's 

 Mag. N. Hist., 1835, vol. 8, pp. 536 to 539. " My father killed the last one 

 in this region certainly known to me between the years 1855 and i860." — 

 Bennett. "About 1873 I heard of one being killed in Sullivan Co. W. B. 

 Lyon of Tioga Co. saw one the same year." — Cleveland. " One was killed 

 in Sullivan Co. near the Luzerne line about 3 years ago [1857]. — Pearce, 

 Annals Luzerne Co., i860, p. 490. 



Susquehanna Co. — Last one killed in the Co. by a Mr. Orin, near Clifford, 

 in 1874. — Stevens. "I remounted a specimen shot by Samuel E. Brush of 

 Susquehanna, Susq. Co., in 1856. It was shot in the same Co., and was re- 

 mounted for the Chicago World's Fair, Penna. exhibit. It measured 7 ft. 

 ■9 in. in length, was 30 inches high at shoulders, and weighed 147 lbs. when 

 shot. It was a rare species when captured. Now it is wholly extinct in the 

 ■Co." — Friant, 1901. Mr. Friant tells me that Dr. B. H. Warren and himself 

 persuaded Mr. Brush to give the specimen to State College, Bellefonte, Pa., 

 for sake of its preservation. It is now there. The skull is in the specimen, 

 and the mouth is open so that its dental characters may be determined. The 

 skin is in fair condition, and not bleached by exposure and age. 



Tioga Co. — " About the year 1840, Jacob Seachrist with his nephew, John 

 Seachrist, who was then a boy, were hunting stray cattle on Briar Hill in Lib- 

 erty Twp. They had three dogs with them. The dogs got after a panther, 

 and drove it up a tree. Jacob shot the panther, but before it died it killed 



