1827. 
1830. 
1867. 
1869. 
1869. 
1874. 
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256.—Less., Man. Mamm., 1827, 190, sp. 507.—Coop. & Suck., 
Nat. Hist. Wash. Terr., 1859, 74, 108.—Baird, U. S. & Mex. B. 
Sur., 1859, 5.—De Kay, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1842, 47.—Baird, U. S. 
P. R. R. Expl. Ex., 1857, vol. viii, 88.—Harl., Faun. Amer., 
1825, 94.—Waen., Suppl. Schreb., 1841, 461.—Aud. & Bach., 
Quad. N. Am., vol. ii, 1851, 805, pls. xcvi, xcvii, (8vo. ed.)— 
Less., Nouv. Tab. Regn. Anim., 1842, 56, sp. 512.—Newb., P. R. R. 
Rep., vi, 1857, 36—Marcy, Rep. Expl. Red River, 1852, 200.— 
Woodh., Sitgr. Rep. Zuni & Colorado, 1854, 47.—Coues, Am. Nat., 
i, 1867, 286.+-Id., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 133.—AlL., 
Bull. Hssex Inst., vi, 1862, 58, 58.—Id., Bull. M. C. Z., ii, 1871, 
168.—Jordan, Manual of the Vertebrates, 1878, 16, 2nd ed. 
Felis nigra, Griff, Syn., sp. 444 (?).—Erxl., Syst. Reg. Anim., 1777, 
512, sp. 8. 
Felis discolor, Gmel., Syst. Nat., 1788, vol. i, pt. 1, 79, sp. 12.— 
Schreb., Siugth., 1778.—Fisch., Zeogu., 1814, 223, sp. 6.—Less., 
Man. Mamm., 1827, 190, sp. 509. 
Felis wnicolor, Less., Man. Mamm., 1827, p. 190, sp. 508. 
Felis puma, Shaw, Gen. Zool., 1830, vol. i, 358, pl. cxxxix.— 
Molina, Saggio Stor. Nat. Chilo, 1810, 245, sp. 8. 
Leopardus concolor, J. K. Gray, P. Z. &., 1867, 265.—Id., Cat. Carn. 
Mamm., 1869, 12.—Id., Cat. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 1842, 41. 
Panthera concolor, Fitzin., Ditzg. Akad, Wiss. Wein., 1869, lix, 629. 
Panthera concolor niger, Fitzin.. Ditzg. Akad. Wika Wein., 1869, 
lix, 634. 
Puma concolor, J. Hi. Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 1874, p. —. 
The panther is the second in size of the North American cats. It is 
larger than the common sheep or largest dog, weighing sometimes one 
hundred and fifty pounds. 
A full sized female, as recorded by Dr. Coues, weighed, without the 
viscera, eighty pounds; gross weight, estimated, one hundred pounds. 
The measurements of the same specimen, taken in the flesh, indicate a 
fair average : 
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