TIO HUNTING AND FISHING IN FLORIDA. 
snarling face over the sights of my rifle), he will probably prove to 
be a very old and unusually large male Fels concolor floridana. 
Panthers kill many small mammals, as well as deer, when they 
can get them. They are very fond of hogs, and a good place to 
look for a panther is in the vicinity of some drove of semi-wild pigs. 
When once a panther becomes a “‘ pig eater” he prefers pig to any 
other kind of food. 
LYNX RUFUS FLORIDANUS (Raf). 
Florida Wildcat. 
Common. Some specimens are large and spotted on the sides 
and flanks, and are more rufous than Northern specimens. I have 
killed one old male which measured forty inches from tip of nose to 
tail, and stood twenty inches high at the shoulder. 
Famity CANID. THE Wo.Lves aAnp Foxes. 
CANIS LUPUS GRISEO-ALBUS (Ziun.). 
Wolf. 
Still not uncommon in some localities. In the vicinity of the 
Big Cypress and in extreme Southern Florida wolves _ still 
occur in some numbers. A wolf was seen in the spring of 1895 
near Little Fish Crossing, southwest of Lake Worth. They are 
usually black, although examples have been killed which were 
brown, shading into gray on the belly and breast. 
I have heard of gray wolves in Florida, but have never seen 
one. Robert Osceola killed a female with two cubs near the Big 
Cypress in the spring of 1894. He captured the little ones alive 
and took them to his camp; but they would not eat, and, after 
keeping them a day or two, he killed them. The mother and both 
pups were black. 
UROCYON CINEREO — ARGENTATUS (JZu//.). 
Gray Fox. 
Common. Florida foxes are somewhat smaller and grayer on the 
back than those found farther north. 
