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and Iron counties, Wisconsin; and Jackson records it from Ashland, 

 Bayfield, Iron, Oneida and Price counties (/. c, 1908, p. 25). The 

 following gentlemen are my authorities for the statement that the 

 species still exists in a number of counties in northern Wisconsin: 

 Door Co. (John Weber, Forestville) ; Marinette Co. (George A. Williams, 

 Klremlin) ; Florence Co. (J. E. Parry, Florence) ; Taylor Co. (J. W. Benn, 

 Medford); Iron Co. (James Miller, Cedar); Price Co. (W. J. Webster, 

 Park Falls) ; Marathon Co. (George F. Erzwein, Athens) ; Douglas Co. 

 (N. Lucins, Jr., Solon Springs) ; Douglas Co. (George W. Zeon, Foxboro). 



Mr. Edward G. Kingsford of Iron Mountain, Michigan, who is well 

 acquainted with this animal, writes: "There are quite a number of 

 Canada Lynx (Big-footed Lynx) in this country now. They seem to be 

 on the increase since the passing of the old trappers. It is quite a 

 common thing to see their tracks in the big woods. This is the only 

 thing that I know of that could have been mistaken for a Panther, an 

 animal I have never seen or heard of in this part of the country." 

 Old trappers claim that it was common throughout northern Michigan 

 in early days.* 



The Canada Lynx preys largely upon small mammals, such as Mice, 

 Gophers, Squirrels, Rabbits and Hares, especially the last, but it also 

 kills large game, and it destroys many birds, such as grouse and ducks, 

 especially during the breeding season. Hunters inform me that they 

 occasionally kill Foxes and Porcupines, but they probably seldom attack 

 the latter unless forced to do so by lack of other food. Audubon and 

 Bachmanf say: "At a public house in Canada we were shown the skin 

 of one of these Lynxes, the animal having been found quite helpless 

 and nearly dead in the woods. It appears that leaping onto a Por- 

 cupine, it had caught a tarter, as its head was greatly inflamed and it 

 was nearly blind. Its mouth was full of sharp quills of that well 

 defended animal, which would in a day or two have occasioned its 

 death." 



Mr. R. MacFarlane says,| "It feeds on eggs, ducks, partridges, mice, 

 stranded fish, and occasionally on land captured beaver, young deer 

 or sheep, while rabbits, of course, form their staple article of diet. It 

 is chiefly taken in snares; some are trapped, and others are followed up 

 with dogs, treed, and shot. The flesh is white and tender, and is an 

 important and much-relished native country product. The female is 



* N. A. Wood says, "While trapping on Sand Point in 1855-6, Mr. Fittenger 

 took fifteen individuals of this species. He was apparently very sure of the identity 

 of the form, distinguishing it from the Wild Cat by the long ear tufts (Mich. Geol, 

 & Biol. Surv. Pub. for 191 1, p. 311). 



t Quadrupeds of N. Amer., I, 1846, p. 138. 



X Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVIII, 1905, p. 692. 



