THE LYNX 



WHAT the cougar is as an enemy to the 

 useful big game, the bob-cat is to small 

 game and the young of big game. He, 

 however, lacks the cunning of the former, being 

 easily called or trapped, and therefore as a class, 

 and excepting individual cases few and far 

 between, will never become a menace to either 

 the sportsmen's fraternity or to stockgrowers. 

 Where hundreds of them infest the country as 

 in certain sections of the Bad Lands they only 

 serve to check the increase of the millions of 

 cottontail rabbits, which would otherwise so rap- 

 idly multiply that they would become a destruc- 

 tive pest throughout the cultivated sections of the 

 country. 



The tracker, trailing bob-cats like deer, can 

 often surprise them at prowling, or jump them 

 at close range from their beds, which are usually 

 found under deadfalls or overhanging rocks, etc. 

 Until their suspicions are aroused they are very 



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