110 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Genus Lynx Kerr. 
Lynxes. 
Lynx ruffus (Guldenstedt). 
WildvGat, Bob? Cat. 
PLATE 58. 
Length, 38 inches. Legs rather long, ears tufted, tail very 
short (not over six inches). Color yellowish brown, tinged with 
rufous (much redder in summer), spotted with dark brown or 
black, narrow black lines on the head and a stripe down the back, 
chin and throat white, below, white spotted with black. 
Once abundant but now on the verge of extinction in New 
Jersey. At the time of publication of Mr. Rhoads’ work on the 
Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1903, it was re- 
ported extinct except in the most northern counties where some 
were thought to linger, while three recent records of wild-cats 
killed in Mercer county are given in 1885, 1891 and 1892. 
Wild-cats are vicious animals, not hesitating to attack man 
when cornered, and preying on all the birds and mammals of the 
forest, as well as poultry, and young sheep and pigs. 
Their dens are located in hollow trees or in rocky ledges. 
Lynx rufus Abbott, Cook’s Geol. of N. J., 1868, p. 753.— 
Abbott, A Naturalist’s Rambles, 1885, p. 447. 
Lyncus rufus Beelsey, Geol. Cape May Co., 1857, p. 137. 
Lynx ruffus Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1897, p. 32. 
—Rhoads, Mam. of Pa. and N. J., 1903, p. 141. 
