THE PENNSYLVANIA LION OR PANTHER. 7 



of these pages will be to disprove many of the stories 

 derogatory to the animal, to give a hearing to its side 

 of the case and a wider knowledge of its beauty and 

 usefulness. This is done in case a time should come 

 when "red-blooded" sportsmen will decide to reintro- 

 duce the panther as our leading game animal. Then 

 there would be at least one published work which 

 would show the misjudged "cougar" in a favorable 

 light. Though perhaps lacking in scientific exactness, 

 these pages would contain a brief for its existence. 

 Southern panthers may still visit the wilder localities 

 of Pennsylvania, and a wider knowledge of the animal 

 might help prevent a general onslaught against these 

 wanderers. In this connection it might be well to 

 state that the wandering panthers are smaller than 

 those which held their fixed abode in a single valley. 

 In Algeria, where wandering leopards or "panthers" 

 are found, they are called Berrani, whereas those 

 which remain in one locality are called Dolly. The 

 Berrani, (the Hunting Leopard) strangely enough, 

 is smaller than the Dolly. Natural history has 

 many parallels, coincidences and mysteries. All 

 of them teach us the wonders of existence and 

 should make us deal gently with every form of God's 

 lesser creatures. We have no right to say which ani- 

 mals shall be destroyed and which spared. Just as 

 we look with scorn on the wasteful methods of the old- 

 time lumbermen of Pennsylvania, we will before long 

 cherish the same opinion of the men who wantonly 

 destroyed the wild life of the Commonwealth. 



