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points in question. The thorough and exhaustive manner in which 

 this part of the subject has already been treated by Professor Baird 

 and Dr. Allen has rendered anything further than this unnecessary. 



FELID-S3. 



1 . Lynx canadensis Raf. Canada Lynx. Rare, and generally 

 occurring only in the more thinly settled and mountainous parts of the 

 State. A very large one was killed in November, 18GG, in the town 

 of Ware. Reports of their capture in the towns of western Hampden, 

 Hampshire, and Franklin Counties, as well as in Berkshire, are not 

 very infrequent. 



2. Lynx rufus Raf. Bay Lyxx. Apparently rather more com- 

 mon than the preceding species, but, like this, it is generally confined 

 to the more wooded and mountainous districts. One was taken at 

 Ipswich a short time since, and they seem to occur at intervals in all 

 sections of the State. 



The Fells concolor Linn. (Panther) has probably been for some time 

 extinct in Massachusetts, though undoubtedly once occurring here. 

 There is a stuffed specimen in Springfield said to have been killed a 

 year or two since in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. A few 

 months since the writer saw another that was captured on Pine Hill, in 

 \Vcathersfield, Vermont, January 81, 1867. This specimen is said to 

 have measured seven feet from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail, 

 to have stood two feet nine inches high, and to have weighed one hun- 

 dred twenty-two and a half pounds. It had lived for some time pre- 

 viously on Ascutney Mountain, a few miles from where it was captured. 

 Very good photographs of this rare animal, taken from this specimen 

 before it was skinned, can be obtained of Mr. J. D. Powers, of Spring- 

 field, Vermont. 



Professor Thompson states, in his Natural History of Vermont (p. 

 37), that for some time after the settlement of that State had com- 

 menced the Panther was so common there as to be considered danger- 

 ous to travellers unless they were well armed. In his Appendix (p. 

 12) he states that the last one he had known to be killed in that State, 

 and also the only one for many years, was captured in Bennington, in 

 February, 1850. 



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