curled up asleep, and looked like a large house cat, but when 
aroused it jumped against the bars of the cage hissing and spit- 
ting, with ears laid close to its head, bit at the bars and seemed 
in a perfect frenzy to attack us. 
Souk- time afterwards, when visiting the zoo, I asked an 
old man. who was working about the garden, if lie remembered 
the "Indian Devil." 
'*( )h yes," he said ; "it w as one of them wild cats out of the 
Blue Ridge Mountains. It soon died. You can't keep 'em in 
captivity. Why. that beast just spent every night while it lived 
buttin- its head agin the bars tryin 1 to git out. It eat enough, 
but it just killed itself tryin' to git away." 
As I remember the cat at the zoo it was not quite as dis- 
tinctly striped as Mr. Fretz's cat. and was, perhaps, a little larger, 
but it had the same large round head, flat ears and short ringed 
tail. 
Found in Fayette County 
A lady whose home was at one time on the summit of Chest- 
nut Ridge, a spur of the Allegheny Mountains, in Fayette county, 
Pennsylvania, tells me that these long-tailed wild cats are by no 
means uncommon there ; that often in driving at night they would 
see a wild cat cross the road in front of the car, taking his time and 
staring at the lights as he went. She says she never knew them to 
attack anyone, but that when they drove in a carriage they always 
carried a pistol as a protection against wildcats, and that they 
were always warned that if they had meat in the carriage and 
encountered a wild cat to throw the meat to it and get away as 
fast as possible. 
i Miss Cox's contribution to the Wild Cat question is very 
interesting and valuable. Miss Cox is one of the most careful 
investigators and most conscientious naturalists in Bucks county, 
and her opinion and the facts she relates should have much 
w eight, ft is to be hoped that other naturalists will make simi- 
lar inquiries. — EDITOR. ) — Bucks County News. January. 1922] 
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