he county, and we know of a number
being taken on the Huron, Raisin, and Saline rivers from 1856 to 1910,
but none have been reported since that date. Three were seen and one
shot by Edwin Hawley near Munith, Jackson County, not far from the
county line, March 25, 1909. One was reported seen in a small mud lake
in Lodi Township in 1910. At this same lake in 1886 two were taken by J.
H. Bortle, of Saline. In May, 1908, John Staebler, a farmer, saw one at
close range near Fleming Creek, two miles east of Ann Arbor, and in the
spring of 1900 he saw another near the same place.

_Felis cougar._--L. D. Watkins, of Manchester, records this animal as
often passing through Manchester, about 1835, generally going southwest;
the last one was seen in 1870. Hon. Henry S. Dean, of Ann Arbor, stated
that one was reported in the county by hunters in 1838. Miss Julia
Dexter Stannard[2] tells of a panther that in 1830 chased her mother at
dusk one evening while she was returning home, to Webster Township, from
Ann Arbor on horseback. The panther followed almost to the house, when
the lights in the window scared it off.

[Footnote 2: _Mich. Pioneer Coll._, v. 28, p. 565.]

_Lynx canadensis._ Canada Lynx.--L. D. Watkins reports that he killed
one in this county in 1842, and Hon. Henry S. Dean, of Ann Arbor, told
me that old hunters reported it in the county in 1838.

_Lynx ruffus ruffus._ Bob-cat, Bay Lynx.--This species was always more
common in the county than the Canada lynx, but it has been extinct here
for fifty years. The early settlers often recorded it as common. In 1850
J. S. Wood, of Lodi Township, treed one with a dog. In 1870 Henry
Wilson, of Dexter, saw one near Independence Lake.

_Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii._ Prairie Deer Mouse.--Specimens were
taken September 28, 1909, in open fields near Manchester by F. M. Gaige.
In the fall of the same year Dr. J. B. Steere took it on the big marsh
four miles south of Ann Arbor; this, he states, is his first record for
the species. In 1920 it was taken near Cavanaugh Lake, and is numerous
near Ann Arbor and Portage Lake. It probably formerly occurred on the
open prairies and oak openings, but now it is found in open fields and
in grassy meadows.

_Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis._ Northern Deer Mouse.--This mouse
is abundant in forests over the county, and is found in adjoining
fields, especially in those containing corn.

_Synaptomys cooperi cooperi._ Cooper Lemming-vole.