MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. I39 



Sullivan Co. — Three or four shot here [country between Loyalsock and 

 Pine Creeks, Sullivan, Lycoming and Tioga Cos] in fall [1834] — length 4 ft." 

 As distinguished from wild cat — " 3 feet, spotted." — Taylor, Loudon's Magaz. 

 N. Hist., 1835, vol. 8, pp. 536 to 539. Not known at Eaglesmere. — Ben- 

 nett, 1896. They say one was killed near Lopez 25 or 30 years ago (1871 to 

 1876).— Behr. 



Tioga Co. — " A description of the Canada Lynx would fit the lynx that I 

 killed in Pennsylvania years ago, except that the Canada Lynx is perhaps J^ 

 larger. I have seen the Canada lynx in Minnesota and northern Michigan^ 

 I was called professionally to see a lady by the name of Mcintosh in Mc- 

 intosh Hollow on the Tioga River in Ward Township about the time of the 

 War of the Rebellion. The boys came from the woods with a load while I 

 was there and reported a deer killed in their ' sugar-bush ' by a panther. The 

 snow was a foot or more deep. I procured a steel trap, and found on ex- 

 amination, when I reached the woods, that a deer had been killed the night 

 before by what I supposed to be a large wild-cat, or catamount, as the larger 

 species of cats were called. The animal had got on the body of a fallen 

 hemlock turned up by its roots, walked its whole length, and climbed on to 

 its roots, about eight feet from the ground. The deer, a medium-sized doe, 

 had been feeding near. The struggle was a fearful one, judging from the 

 blood and area of snow tramped down. I set the trap by the carcass of the 

 dead deer. The next day, when I visited my patient, I went to look at the 

 trap, and found it gone, with its heavy drag. Followed half a mile toward a 

 large swamp, and found trap fast to a lynx, shot it, had the skin dressed and 

 made into a collar that I wore several winters." — Cleveland, 1901. 



Wayne Co. — Specimens have been taken in the northern part of this Co. 

 within 7 years. — Stevens, 1899. Very rare in Wayne Co. — Goodnough, 1900. 



Over the State. — During the past 5 years I have made very careful inquiries 

 in all sections where the Canada Lynx was reported to be present, but as yet 

 have not been able to discover a true example. There are, however, it is 

 said, two or three well authenticated instances where the Canada Lynx has 

 been taken in Pennsylvania within the last 25 years. — Warren, Poultry Book, 

 1897, p. 441. 



Records in N. J. — None have been received nor probably ever will be at 

 this date, owing to the length of time since they were exterminated and the 

 confusion existing in the minds of hunters as to their identity. That they 

 once existed as stragglers in the northern part of the state is true beyond all 

 reasonable doubt. — Rhoads. Kalm states that the Swedes of N. Jersey 

 recognized the lynx as distinct from the wild cat. One was called the 

 " Warglo " or wolf-lynx, the other " Kattlo " or cat-lynx. The former had 

 been known to kill " stags." — See Kalm's Travels. These remarks of Kalm 

 refer rather indefinitely to N. J., Pa. and N. York. 



