680 Life-histories of Northern Animals 



Life-history. 



RANGE This species ranges over the whole of Manitoba wherever 



there is cover. In autumn it is often found three or four miles 

 out on the prairies. Premier Roblin has supplied me with the 

 record of a Lynx killed on his farm near Carman, among some 

 willows, 3 miles from timber and lo from woodland of any 

 extent. In the end of October, 1883, I met with a Lynx on 

 the open prairie 20 miles west of Shellmouth. In the fall of 

 1905, E. W. Darbey says 2 Lynxes were killed within the limits 

 of the city of Winnipeg. But its usual haunts are the woods, 

 the thicker the better. 



HOME- The Lynx is generally believed to be a wide ranger. 



While the young are unable to travel it would be impossible 

 for the mother to go more than four or five miles from home, 

 but, in the autumn and winter, there is reason for believing 

 they will go fully ten times as far. I remember meeting with a 

 Lynx near Toronto in December, 1875, although it was com- 

 monly believed that they were no longer found within 30 or 

 40 miles of that city. 



ABUN- I met with but three or four Lynxes during as many years 



in Manitoba, so that in the poplar region about Carberry 

 and westward they cannot be called abundant. In the sandhill 

 tract between Carberry and the river, about 20 miles by 15, I 

 doubt if there are ordinarily a dozen Lynxes resident. In the 

 thickly wooded regions northward, they are said to be much 

 more plentiful, and in the Peace River country, during the great 

 Rabbit year of 1904, the Lynxes so abounded that nearly 

 every hunter and trapper in the country got from 20 to 50 that 

 season. 



BIUTY 



sociA- So far as known, the only approaches to sociability in this 



animal are the bands of four or five that are seen together in 

 autumn and winter, and it is the opinion of most hunters that 



