NO. 1147. MAMMALS OF THE CATSEILL MOUNTAINS— MKANXS. 359 



LYNX CANADENSIS Kerr. 

 CANADA LYNX. 



I am informed that there are two niouiitcd ai)eciinoii8 in one of the 

 local collections, but I did not sec them. Hunters told me that tliere 

 are still a good many 'lynxes,' as well as 'wildcats,' in the moun- 

 tains. ^'ery large tracks of a lynx, which 1 suppose to have been this 

 species and not Lyiu- riijl'iis, were seen almost daily on the summit of 

 Hunter Mountain during the latter part of August. It often caught 

 varying hares and devoured them in the trail along which my traps 

 were ])laced. 



This is the type locality of Kalines(pu'.\s Li/n.i' montauKti, described ' 

 as follows: 



Lipix montaniin. Mat'. Kars bearillo.ss, black outside, with :i white spot, fallow 

 inside; fur f^rayiHh and unspotted aliov*^, wliitish with brown dots undern<iath, 

 tail {frayish. — Obs. On tlm Ilighlanda of New-York, the Catskill and Tern nioun- 

 taiuH, the Alleghany, etc. Lenj^th from three to four feet, hirf^er than tlu! foregoing 

 [Lynx canadenaw] . 



From the above description, this nanie ai)pears to have been based 

 on the summer pelage of Lynx can<(<hn}iLs. 



During the winter of 1877-78 a Canada lynx was killed near Rhine- 

 beck, on the Hudson, and brought to Prof. James M. l)e (Jarmo, in 

 whose collection I saw it soon after. This is the only record of its 

 occunence in the immediate vicinity of the Hudson Kiver, during 

 recent years, that has been brought to my attention. 



LYNX RUFFUS (Giildenstadt). 

 WILIXJAT; UAV LYNX. 



Several stulled specimens of wihh-ats said to have Ix'cn killed in that 

 neighborhood, are preserved in the hotels and stores of the (Jatskills. 

 It is, in fact, fairly common in these mountains. 



J{. SPKCIK.S WIIOSK OCCUKRICNCI'; AT TIIK I'UKSICNT 11 M K IS DOriniT I,. 



SCIUROPTERUS VOLANS (Linnaeus). 

 SOUTHERN FLYIN(i KCiUIRREL. 



The tlying squirrels living near Schoharie Creek are cpiite likely to be 

 of this species. 



LASIURUS CINEREUS (Beauvois). 

 HOARY nAT. 



A bat which I saw on August 11, 1890, was supposed lo l)e of this 

 species. 



' American Monthly Maga/.iue; November, 1817, II, p. 46, 



