136 MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. 



Genus Lynx Kerr, Animal Kingdom, 1792, vol. i. Systematic catalog, in- 

 serted between pp. 32 & 33 ; description on p. 157. 



East Canadian Lynx. Lynx canadensis Kerr. 



1792. Lynx canadensis Kerr, Animal Kingdom, same reference as above 

 for genus. 



Type locality. — Eastern Canada. 



Faunal distribution. — Canadian, Hudsonian and Arctic zones; Atlantic 

 Ocean to Rocky Mountains. 



Distribution in Pa. and N. J. — Always a rare species in even the most 

 boreal parts of Pa. I have no certain record from northern N. J., but it 

 probably straggled occasionally in former times into the most northern coun- 

 ties. It is now practically exterminated within our entire limits. In the 

 higher AUeghanies it once reached the southern border of Pa. 



Records in Pa. — Cameron Co. — " Mr. Larrabee, who recognized the specific 

 distinction between [wild cat and lynx] told me [in 1896] that he knew cer- 

 tainly of the capture of one in Cameron or Potter Co. within 16 years." — 

 Rhoads, Proc. A. N. S., Phila., 1897, p. 222. 



Columbia Co. — "I killed one 50 years ago [1849] i^ Columbia Co. 

 Know of none since." — Buckalew, 1899. 



Forest Co. — "It is 50 years since I saw one." — Haslet, 1900. 



Lackawanna Co. — I have examined a specimen of lynx in the private col- 

 lection of E. W. Campbell, West Pittston, Pa. This specimen is a male in 

 the summer coat. The size is not great but the teeth indicate an adult in 

 early prime. The ears are tipped with stiff, bristling, black hairs or tufts 

 about i^ inches long, their points being considerably worn. The tail is 

 short, and the feet relatively large as in Canada lynx as contrasted with bay 

 lynx. The color is a dull reddish gray, unspotted above, and a conspicuous 

 ruff surrounds the sides of neck. The lynx was killed, so I am informed by 

 Mr. Campbell, in late September, 1881, by Jesse Weaver in a timber tract 

 where he was chopping, in the mountains near the Welch Settlement, Spring 

 Brook township. The lynx was discovered lying on a tree limb and shot. 

 Another specimen of half grown lynx in Mr. Campbell's collection, taken 

 later at Ash Gap, Lehigh River, by C. Donnelly and in winter fur, is of such 

 a light gray spotless color that there is a probability that it is a L. canadensis. 

 It has ear tufts almost as large as in adult L. ruffus. The following measure- 

 ments, among many others taken from this mounted specimen and kindly 

 furnished by Mr. Campbell, indicate it to be a lynx and not a wild cat : 

 Total length, 3 ft. 4 in. ; tail vertebse, 4}^ in. ; ear pencil, above ear tip, ij^ 

 in. ; hind foot from end of longest toe to heel, measured along sole, ^% in. ; 

 width of hind foot pads, 2,% in., length, 4^4^ ; front foot, 334x3 in. 



