EASILY DOMESTICATED. 



Savage as the lynx is in his native wilds, he may be 

 readily domesticated. I speak from my own experience ; for 

 on two several occasions, I have brought up those animals 

 from cubs, and kept them for a year or more, and they 

 were then sent over to England. Whilst in my possession, 

 they evinced no vice whatever, and we handled them and did 

 what we pleased with them ; but though at times allowed 

 their full liberty, they were not, as a rule, permitted to go at 

 large. 



M. Grill testifies also to the domesticity of the lynx. 

 Having on one occasion procured two cubs of a very tender 

 age, he placed them with a cat, in exchange for her kittens ; 

 and what is singular, the step-mother showed the same 

 affection towards them as to her own progeny. One died ; 

 but the other throve well, and soon learnt to eat anything 

 that was given to him. Even when he was half as large 

 again as his step -mother, they got on extremely well 

 together, and the cat licked and caressed him as high 

 up as she could reach ; but when he was four months 

 old, the cat began to think he was altogether too large for 

 a veritable kitten, and had an ugly look about him, so that 

 when he would continue his caresses, she would set up her 

 back and spit at him. 



Though the lynx may not " tax the peasant higher 

 than the crown," he is sufficiently destructive, and va^ 

 rious expedients are therefore employed to compass his 

 death. 



Some few are killed in Skalls though not so many as 

 might be supposed ; and probably for the reason, that on 

 these occasions the lynx often takes shelter either in trees, 

 or in fissures of rocks, in which case he may very readily be 



