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Life-histories of Northern Animals 



An extremely lean male from Halifax, Nova Scotia, 

 weighed i6 pounds;' another from Petersburg Mountains, east 

 of Troy, was 22 pounds.- The full-grown but lean female 

 whose feet appear in Fig. 186, weighed 13 pounds. A young 

 female, taken on Great Slave River, I weighed at 15 pounds. A 

 small but adult female which I examined at Calgary, Alberta, 

 weighed 19 pounds 11 ounces. S. N. Rhoads accepts' and 

 records the following weights for Canada Lynx in Pennsyl- 



Fic. 183 — Mastology of Canada Lynx?. 

 Taken Athabaska River, May 19, 1907. 



vania: "about 40 pounds, as high as 44 pounds," but these 

 are exceptionally heavy. 



In summer: Grayish-brown, much darker on the head 

 and back (where the long hairs are black with occasional 

 white tips), and shaded into dull whitish below; the ears be- 

 hind are black, with a central spot of whitish; a spot at the 

 corner of the mouth, the bars on the ruff, and the whole end 

 of the toil black; a few dusky spots show on the inside of 

 each limb. 



In winter: The colour is much paler and grayer; at all 

 times the tuft of hairs on the ears is long and black. 



When seen alive it looks and behaves exactly like a huge 

 gray cat. Its tufted ears and short bobtail will distinguish it 

 from its near relatives. It might be mistaken for the American 



■ Aud. & Bach., Quad. N. \., 1849, Vol. I, p. ij 



' Ihid. 



^ Mam. Pcnn., 1903, pp. 137-8. 



