22 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



FERAE. • FISSIPEDIA. 



FELIDAE. 



Vt.— Green Mountains (1894) ; Barnard (1881); Weathers- 

 field (1867) ; Bennington (1850). 

 Mass. — Extirpated. 

 R. I.— Extirpated, 



55. Lyxx canadensis (Kerr.) Rafinesque. 



Canada lynx ; Lucivee. 



F'elis lynx canadensis Kerr, Anim. kingdom, 1792, p. 157. 

 '' Canada." 



Fells canadensis Desmarest. Elliot, Monograph of the Feli- 

 dae, 1880, pt. 6, 2 pp. text, 1 pi. 



Lynx canadensis Kerr. Stone & Cram, Amer. animals, 1902, 

 p. 286-288, 1 pi. 



Evei-green forests of the north. 



Me. 



N. H.— Rare. 



Vt, — Rare. 



Mass. — Practically extirpated. Ware (1866). 



56. Lynx ruffus (Giildenstadt.) Rafinesque. 



Bay lynx ; Bobcat ; Wildcat. 



Felis ruffa Giild., Nov. comm. acad. scient. imp. Petrop., 1776, 

 vol. 20, p. 484. (Ex Pennant, "Inner parts of the province 

 OF New-york.") 



Lynx ruffus (Giild.). Bangs, Pj'oc. biol. soc. Washington, 

 1897, vol, 11, pi. 2, fig, 3, 



Lyncus rufus (Temminck.) De Kay, Nat. hist. New York, 

 1842, pt. 1, p. 51-53, pi. 10, fig. 1. 



Deep woods ; dens among rocks. 



Me. to R. I. 



Conn. — East Hartford. 



