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The panther, though smaller than the jaguar, Ff. onca, stands higher, 
owing to the greater relative length of its legs. 
In color the panther is not unlike the Virginia deer. The back and 
sides are of a tawny brownish color, darker on the dorsal line, the under 
parts dirty white. The only dark markings are a black patch on the 
upper lip, and on the convexity of the ears; the tip of tailisdusky. The 
body of the kittens is densely spotted, as usual in oe family, and the 
tail is ringed. 
The hair is short, compact, close pressed to skin. The head is small, 
the ears large, and rounded above; the whiskers are in four horizontal 
series. 
This species is common in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, and 
ranges from fifty to sixty degrees north latitude to the south extreme of | 
the American continent. 
In certain localities of New Mere and Arizona it wages a terrible 
warfare upon wild turkeys, destroying hundreds of them, and depopulat- 
ing their former breeding places to such an extent that in a few years 
the race will have become almost extinct in this region if measures are 
not taken to prevent the wholesale slaughter.—[Coues and Yarrow. | 
In Dy. Kirtland’s list of mammals (Ohio Geological Survey for 1838) is 
the following: | 
‘Felis Concolor” and ‘Felis Montana,” Mountain Tiger and Mountain Cat, both 
known to hunters under the name of ‘Catamount.’ They both formerly inhabited the 
State, but have now disappeared. Mr. Dorfeuille has in his museum at Cincinnati well 
prepared specimens of both species that were taken in Ohio.”—[Italics mine. Dorfeuille 
and his museum are not in existence now, and have not been for years,—LANGDON. ] 
Mr. Frank W. Langdon, of Madisonville, Hamilton county, Ohio, has 
given me a series of notes on the mammals of Ohio, chiefly selected from 
the early histories of the State. From them I select the following: 
‘¢The first board of county commissioners offered a bounty of three dollars for wolf 
and panther scalps under six months old, and four dollars on those over six months 
old. This bounty was discontinued in 1818.” [History of Athens county, Ohio, page 
130.—C. M. Walker, 1869.] 
The following panther anecdote is taken from the Centennial History 
of Licking county, Ohio, published at Newark, Ohio, by Isaac Smucker : 
‘Tn the autumn of 1805 Jacob Wilson, living within a mile of Newark, was suddenly 
called to the door of his cabin by the commotion among his swine and pigs. A huge 
panther had just seized a pig, and when in the act of making off with it was pursued and 
treed by the dogs not far from the cabin. The pioneer at once seized his trusty rifle and 
brought it to bear upon the ferocious beast, which at the first fire fell at the root of the 
tree among the dogs.” 
