the range of mountains which culminates at Mount Perm, above 
Reading. 1 have caught three of them in my time in Irish Gap, 
say about 185? or 1858, two by a hind foot, and one by a front 
foot. 1 always dreaded to get them in my traps as they fought 
so fiercely and were hard to kill. They were larger than the 
biggest domestic cats, their winter coat very fluffy, their faces 
were broad and the tails were beautifully ringed. I was never 
sure if they were a native wild animal or were brought over bv 
early Colonists from Europe, or else were tame house cats gone 
wild, in the third or fourth generation. I have sketched them, 
and remember their appearance as clearly as if it were vester- 
day." 
Chauncey E. Logue, State wild animal trapper, of Wool- 
rich, Clinton County, born on First Fork of Sinnemahoning 
Creek, in 1870, and probably the leading bob cat hunter of his 
generation says : "The older people where I was brought up, it 
was a wild region up to twenty years ago, always gave me to 
understand there was a fourth species of the cat family in Penn- 
sylvania, a long-tailed wild cat. As a small boy I saw the car- 
casses of several that had been killed by ^hunters, and my recol- 
lection is clearly that they were not like house cats that took to 
the woods." Emmanuel Harman, hunter, of Mt. Zion, Clinton 
County, born in 1832, who died several years ago said: "Young 
panthers were sometimes found in the woods by the early settlers 
and because of their long tails, called 'wild cats', but there was 
also a true wild cat in the Pennsylvania mountains, with a long- 
tail, clearly marked and barred ; these I have seen and 
helped to kill several times when I was a boy." George 
A. Betzer, State Game Protector, of White Deer Moun- 
tain, Lycoming County, born in 1862, says : "As a boy in Snyder 
County, in the mountains I always heard the old hunters say 
that there were still a few long-tailed wild cats left, of a race 
fairly plentiful when the first settlers came in, but quickly killed 
off or driven away. Once while on a hunt I helped to kill a 
magnificent long-tailed wild cat ; it ran up a tree and out on a 
