142 MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. 



Sussex Cos.] and that portion of the state." — Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 



753- 



Southern part. — " In the southern counties, among the still undisturbed 

 swamps, there are yet, no doubt, perhaps two or three living." — Abbott, ibid. 



Cape May Co. — " Rare." — Beesley, Geol. Surv. N. J., 1757, appx. 



Mercer Co. — " Three killed in Bear Swamp, near Lawrence station, in the 

 last 12 years. One of these is in the Princeton University Museum. I saw 

 one some time between 1850 and '60 [1852] on the Delaware River meadows 

 between Trenton and Bordentown. It may have come down by the river 

 freshets." — Abbott, 1900. "In 1852 a specimen came down the Delaware 

 during a high freshet — was taken near Trenton, and although apparently dead 

 when found, it revived. This may have come from the northern part of the 

 state, but it is by no means certain." — Abbott. Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 753. 

 "One was killed in Bear Swamp i mile from Clarksville about 1889 or '91 on 

 J. Yard's farm by J. Yard. It was shot in the early part of the fall gunning 

 season, running before the hounds." — McGuigan. "A fellow named J. Toe, 

 16 years old, killed one in Ewen township in the Bear Swamp in 1872." — 

 Ray. "The wild cat you were speaking of was shot in November, 1891, by 

 a man named Yard. We have no part of the animal in Princeton Museum. 

 It seems that this cat was sold to some students, who had it stuffed. Another 

 wild cat was shot near Clarksville in October, 1892, by John French." — Sil- 

 vester, 1901. " In November, 1885, there was a very large specimen shot in 

 the swamp three miles from Princeton (some of the skeleton is in the 

 museum here). There was another individual seen and shot at about the 

 same time but was not killed, nor seen since." — Phillips, 1901. 



Ocean Co. — " Several persons at different times heard cries of an animal 

 believed to be a wild cat in the winter of 1897, below Tuckerton, near the 

 shore." — Price and Jillson. " Some young wild cats were said to have been 

 found in a hollow tree in Manahawkin Swamp when the Tuckerton Railroad 

 was being built through said swamp [about 1870]." — Pharo. 



Passaic and Sussex Cos. — Not yet exterminated but very rarely taken. — 

 Rhoads, Proc. Acad. N. Sci., Phila., 1897, p. 32. " One occasionally killed 

 in Passaic Co. Last one about 1890." — Nelson, 1900. 



Warren Co. — " Six wild cats have been killed during the past live years 

 within four miles of Blairstown." — Davison, 1902. 



Habits, description of species, etc. — See above under Lynx Canadensis, 

 Canada Lynx. 



