98 THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES 



May 19th, young Lynx shot to-day, female, very 

 thin, weighed only 12^ lbs., should have weighed 25. 

 In its stomach nothing but the tail of a white-footed 

 mouse. Liver somewhat diseased. In its bowels at 

 least one tapeworm. 



June 3d, a young male Lynx shot to-day by one of 

 the police boys, as previously recorded. Starving; it 

 weighed only 15 lbs. 



June 6th, adult female Lynx killed, weighed 15 lbs.; 

 stomach contained a Redsquirrel, a Chipmunk, and a 

 Bog-lemming. (Synaptomys borealis.) 



June 18th, young male Lynx, weight 13 lbs., shot by 

 Preble on Smith Landing; had in its stomach a Chip- 

 munk (borealis) and 4 small young of the same, ap- 

 parently a week old; also a score of pinworms. How 

 did it get the Chipmunk family without digging them 

 out? 



June 26th, on Salt Mt. found the dried-up body of a 

 Lynx firmly held in a Bear trap. 



June 29th, one of the Jarvis bear-cub skins was 

 destroyed by the dogs, except a dried-up paw, which 

 he threw out yesterday. This morning one of the men 

 shot a starving Lynx in camp. Its stomach contained 

 nothing but the bear paw thrown out last night. 



These are a few of my observations; they reflect 

 the general condition — all were starving. Not one of 

 them had any Rabbit in its stomach; not one had a 

 bellyful ; none of the females were bearing young this 

 year. 



To embellish these severe and skeletal notes, I add 

 some incidents supplied by various hunters of the north. 



