8o Game of Europe, W. & N. Asia & America 



Asia Minor. Stray specimens have been killed in France, Wiirtemberg, 

 and other districts where the species is practically unknown. In the 

 Caucasus, according to Prince DemidofF, lynxes are comparatively numerous, 

 as they are also reported to be in the forest of Bielowitzka, in Lithuania. 

 The lynx in the Caucasus, in common with the leopard, is known as 

 the horse. 



THE CANADIAN LYNX 



[Felis lynx canadensis) 



In the absence of a large series of skins for comparison, it is by no 

 means easy to state definitely the distinction between the Canadian and 

 European lynx, and the writer has never come across any detailed notice 

 of the differences by American zoologists. It is commonly stated that 

 the American animal is much inferior in size to its European relative, the 

 length of the head and body not exceeding 30 inches, and that of the tail 

 5^ inches. And a very remarkable disparity of size is presented by the 

 American and European representatives of the species now exhibited in the 

 British Museum ; the former being small and uniformly coloured, while 

 the latter (a Norwegian specimen) is large and fully spotted. As regards 

 the absence or presence of spots, the difference between these two 

 specimens is doubtless due to the one being in the winter and the other 

 in the summer dress ; American examples in the latter coat being fully 

 spotted. With regard to size, although there are statements of specimens 

 of a yard in length being killed, it is not improbable that the American 

 form is really smaller than the European. 



Although now verging on extermination in the Eastern United 

 States, the Canadian lynx was originally an inhabitant ot the greater 

 portion of boreal North America, its distributional area extending from 

 Maine and New York to the confines of Alaska, where it is replaced by a 



