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CANADA LYNX. 



DIMENSIONS. 



The Male represented on the Plate : — Recent. 

 From nose to root of tail 

 Tail (vertebrae) . ^. . . 

 Tail, to end of hair 

 Entire length .... 



From nose to end of slvuU 



" " " root of ears 



" " " end of ears laid down 

 Breadth of ears in front 

 Height of ears .... 

 Length of tufts of hair on the ear 

 From nose to hind-foot stretched beyond tail 

 From do. to end of fore-foot stretched beyond nose 

 Distance between roots of ears anteriorly 



" " tips of do. 



Spread of fore-foot, between the claws 



Breadth of arm 



Height to shoulder from middle of fore-claw . 



Weight 16 pounds ; extremely lean. 



33 inches 



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39 



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74 



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2 



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45 



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54 



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34 



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74 



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5 



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134 



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A specimen in the flesh from the Petersburg Mountains, east of Troy : — 

 Male. 



From point of nose to root of tail 



Tail (vertebrae) 



Tail, to end of fur 



Height of ear .... 



Length of tufts on the ears . 



From shoulder to extremity of toes on fore-feet 



From heel to end of hind-claw 



Weight 22 pounds. 



Inches. 



Lines 



37 







4 



4 



5 



4 



2 



2 



1 



9 



17 







7 



5 



In some parts of the State of Maine, and in New Brunswick, there are 

 tracts of land, formerly covered with large trees, but over-run by fires not 

 many years since, now presenting a desolate appearance as you look 

 in every direction and see nothing but tall, blackened and charred trunks 

 standing, with only their larger branches occasionally stretching out to 

 the right or left, while many of them are like bare poles, half burnt off 



