5° 
1g. Lynx. 
P U\ Mi AY EY xX. 
meftic animals, particularly to hogs. It preys alfo upon the Moofe, 
and other deer; falling on them from the tree it lurks in, and never 
quits its hold*.. The deer has no other way of faving itfelf, but by- 
plunging into the water, if there happens to be any near; for the- 
Panther, like the Cat, detefts that element. It will feed even on: 
beafts of prey. I have feen the fkin of one which was fhot, juft as it 
had killed a wolf. When it has fatisfied itfelf with eating,. it care- 
fully conceals the reft of the carcafe, covering it with leaves. If any: 
other animal touches the reliques, it never touches them again.. 
Hift. Quad, N° 170.—Smellie, ¥. 207. 217.-—Lav. Mus.. 
AT. With pale yellow eyes: ears erect, tufted with black long: 
hair: body covered with foft and long fur, cinereous tinged’ 
with tawny, and marked with dufky fpots, more or lefs vifible in dif- 
ferent fubjects, dependent on the age, or feafon in which the animat 
is killed: the legs ftrong and thick: the claws large. About three 
times the fize of a common Cat: the tail only four inches long,,. 
tipt with black. 
Inhabits the vaft forefts of North America: is called in Canada, Le 
Chat, ou Le Loup-cervier ¢, on account of its being fo deftructive to. 
deer ; which it drops on from the trees, like the former, and, fixing. 
on the jugular vein, never quits its hold till the exhaufted animal. 
falls through lofs of blood t. 
The Englifh call it a Wild Cat. It is very deftructive to their young 
pigs, poultry, and all kind of game. The fkins are in high efteem 
for the foftnefs and waemnefs of the fur; and great numbers are an-. 
nually imported into Europe. 
* Charlevoix, y. 189, who by miftake calls it Carcajou, and Kincajou; two very dif-- 
ferent animals. + Charlevoix, ¥. 195. $ Law/on, 118. Catefby, Apps xxve- 
¥ Bay 
