III. DESCRIPTION. 



AFTER interviewing many old-time panther hunt- 

 ers and persons who saw the Pennsylvania lion 

 alive or recently killed, among them Jacob 

 Quiggle (1821-1911), John H. Chatham, George G. 

 Hastings, Seth Iredell Nelson (1809-1905), Clement 

 F. Herlacher and others, the writer has evolved' the 

 following description of the Lion of Pennsylvania: 

 Body, long, slim, head large (averaging eight inches 

 in mature specimens, wide in proportion to length) ; 

 legs strong, short; forelegs like the African lion, 

 stouter than hind legs; tail, long and tufted at end; 

 color greyish about the eyes ; hairs within the ears 

 grey, slightly tinged with yellow; exterior of ears 

 blackish ; those portions of the lips which support the 

 whiskers, black; the remaining portion of the lip pale 

 chocolate ; throat, grey ; beneath the neck pale yellow. 

 General color, reddish in Potter County, shading from 

 a dull gray to a slate further South in the State. The 

 hide of a West Virginia pantheress killed on the 

 Greenbriar River, Pocohontas County, in 1901, three- 

 quarters grown, owned by Hon. C. K. Sober, of Lewis- 

 burg, has long white hair on chest and belly, a fluffy, 

 dark brown tail, culminating in a large tuft of black 

 hair, like the tip of the tail of an African lion. It 

 measured seven feet three inches from tip to tip. 

 Georges Bufifon, whose French work on Natural His- 



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