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VERTEBRATA. 



ippear to b - i ral American ape : -. The Ba* Lynx, Felts ru/a, or Felts 

 monhui'. - - died the American Wild-Cat. It is two and a half feet long, and usually 

 s s ss than twenty pounds; the head is round, the body slender, legs loi _ 



naked, hind-feet partially webbed, tars large, nearly triangular, and tipped wit! 

 hairs, which are shed in summer. The throat is surrounded with a ruff of long hair. The tail is 

 short, slender, and turned up at the end. The general color isof a yellowish brown or bay: there 

 brown rising from the shoulders to the tail, and circular longitudinal strip, 

 •nilar shade upon the back. The - - spotted with dark brown. 



- inimal is very extensively distributed, being found in all the I — s ttled portions I N rth 

 America, from latitude sixty north to the tropics. In the warmer parts <A' the United Si 

 it is abundant, and in some places is even a nuisance, from its depredations upon th __~ and 

 Itry of the plantations. It usually chooses the wooded steeps of hills, or thick, swampy 

 - haunts; it * Is on eggs, rabbits, rats, squirrels, partridges, fish, and indeed ah 

 any small quadruped it can master, or any bird it can seize. The hens, ducks, _ - . and turl 

 of the farm-yards fall victims I >racity. It will follow n>> - wild turkey-, and seeing in 



what direction they ar g, will proceed by a short cut to the path they are likely to * 



where it croud. - od when one of them comes within its reach it bounds upon it ai 



[1 a rery shy animal, and when hunted disp - _ it address in eluding both dogs and 

 hunters. It is very timid, yet makes a stout defense when driven to extremity. It is a tolera 

 swimmer, ai - not the general aversion of the cat family to the water. Its usual home is in 



the hole of a tree, or a space beneath a log. The female makes a bed of moss and leaves, where 

 she produces from two to four young at a birth. All attempts to domesticate this s] 

 proved fruil 1'he flesh is said to be white like veal, and of good flavor. 







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TUE CANADA LYNX. 



wis, the Loup Carrier oi the French, and Peshoo of t ; 

 diana, 1 ind, broad hea a yes, si j* teeth, ears acute and tipped with long hairs. 



gjs -lick and clumsy, the to - stz »ng and imbedded in fur. The fur has 

 . the under part beii g - - . The general color of the 



• . with a rufous ting the sides ai gray, the under surface dull white. There are irregular 

 - •" brown oi y the « form, these markings rarying in different species. 



irty-thr ght inches; the tail six inches. 



rthern s] s, g found from latitud - _ - north to 



nonally found in the unsettled parts of the northern United 3 . but 



