194 THE LYNX 



the thickest of jungle during the daylight hours, 

 and are very wary and stealthyin their movements. 

 Perfectly at home in the branches of trees, where, 

 in the early summer season of the year, they must 

 create great havoc among the young birds of all 

 kinds still occupying the parent nests, they are, 

 nevertheless, most usually met with upon the 

 ground. 



One of these animals provided my table with 

 a very excellent and welcome hare when I was 

 travelling through the Barue district in 1907. 

 The hare when discovered had only just been 

 killed, and beyond a rather badly lacerated throat, 

 which was still bleeding when my people recovered 

 it, and a few body scratches, appeared to have sus- 

 tained but little injury. As I had been living for 

 over a week on tinned provisions, varied by lean 

 antelope meat, the lynx's involuntary contri- 

 bution was received almost with enthusiasm. 



Lynxes are animals of but little interest from 

 any point of view except that of the scientist, and, 

 so far as I can see, but little if in any degree 

 redeemed from classification as vermin. 



