BANGS: LAND MAMMALS OF FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. 235 
The very characteristic Florida “panther,” puma, is still to be 
found in the more thinly settled parts of the state. The exact range 
of the form can not now be given, as the puma is extinct in all the 
region directly northeast of Florida, and I believe in northern 
Florida as well. None have been seen in eastern Georgia for many 
years. Pumas still occur in Louisiana, but I think these do not 
belong to the Florida form. 
Probably Fells floridana is more than subspecifically different 
from Fells concolor Linne of Central America, but until the whole 
group is worked out, it is better to allow the namfe to stand as origi¬ 
nally given. It seems a pity, though, that Cory should have given 
this tine cat the name “ floridana ,” as many authorities, perhaps 
justly, consider the characters that separate Lynx from Felis of 
subgeneric weight; and if this course is followed, the name is pre¬ 
occupied by the Lynx florldanus Raf. 
I have six splendid skins and skulls, $ ’s, 9’s, and young, of the 
Florida panther, all collected for me by F. R. Hunter, west of 
Sebastian, Florida, and therefore practically topotypes. 
The largest of these, a g •> stood three feet four inches high at 
the withers, and three feet six inches high at the rump. 
I can say little of the characters of this form, not being familiar 
with true Fells concolor. But the Florida animal is small and has 
very small feet and hands and a long tail, and is of a bright yellow¬ 
ish bay color. 
Printed, March, 189S. 
