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Although the French authors record the Lynx from the Pyrenees 

 (where it is now probably exterminated), Cabrera suggests (1914, 

 p. 210) that the animal formerly occurring there was the Spanish 

 Lynx (Lynx pardellus) . Trouessart in 1884 (p. 229) considered the 

 European Lynx still present in the Alps, the Jura, and the Pyrenees. 

 There is a record (the last?) for the Jura in 1834 (Martin, 1910, 



FIG. 29. European Lynx (Lynx lynx lynx) 



p. 118). Didier and Rode (1935, pp. 290-291) cite records from the 

 French Alps as late as 1907, 1913, and 1922, but conclude that the 

 species has probably disappeared from the entire country. 



In Germany, for several centuries past, the Lynx has occurred 

 only as an occasional straggler. From 1773 to 1796 five were shot 

 in the Thuringian Forest. A few were taken in Upper Silesia at the 

 beginning of the nineteenth century. Two were shot in the Harz 

 Mountains in 1817 and 1818. (Blasius, 1857, p. 176.) The species 

 was exterminated in Pomerania in 1738; in Westphalia in 1745; in 

 Gotha in 1819; in Bavaria in 1850. In East Prussia several were 

 taken about 1870, and the animal still occurs frequently on the 

 eastern boundary. (Krumbiegel, 1930, p. 6.) One was taken in Thur- 

 ingia in 1843, and one in Wiirttemberg in 1846 (Internationale Ge- 

 sellschaft zur Erhaltung des Wisents, in Hit., October, 1936). At 



