Fes., 1912. MamMats OF ILLINOIS AND WIScoNSIN—CoRY. 289 
and Iron counties, Wisconsin; and Jackson records it from Ashland, 
Bayfield, Iron, Oneida and Price counties (J. ¢., 1908, p. 25). The 
following gentlemen are my authorities for the statement that the 
species still exists in a number of counties in northern Wisconsin: 
Door Co. (John Weber, Forestville) ; Marinette Co. (George A. Williams, 
Kremlin) ; Florence Co. (J. E. Parry, Florence) ; Taylor Co. (J. W. Benn, 
Medford); Iron Co. (James Miller, Cedar); Price Co. (W. J. Webster, 
Park Falls); Marathon Co. (George F. Erzwein, Athens); Douglas Co. 
(N. Lucins, Jr., Solon Springs) ; Douglas Co. (George W. Zeon, Foxboro). 
Mr. Edward G. Kingsford of Iron Mountain, Michigan, who is well 
acquainted with this animal, writes: ‘‘There are quite a number of 
Canada Lynx (Big-footed Lynx) in this country now. They seem to be 
on the increase since the passing of the old trappers. It is quite a 
common thing to see their tracks in the big woods. This is the only 
thing that I know of that could have been mistaken for a Panther, an 
animal I have never seen or heard of in this part of the country.” 
Old trappers claim that it was common throughout northern Michigan 
in early days.* 
The Canada Lynx preys largely upon small mammals, such as Mice, 
Gophers, Squirrels, Rabbits and Hares, especially the last, but it also 
kills large game, and it destroys many birds, such as grouse and ducks, 
especially during the breeding season. Hunters inform me that they 
occasionally kill Foxes and Porcupines, but they probably seldom attack 
the latter unless forced to do so by lack of other food. Audubon and 
Bachmanf say: ‘‘At a public house in Canada we were shown the skin 
of one of these Lynxes, the animal having been found quite helpless 
and nearly dead in the woods. It appears that leaping onto a Por- 
cupine, it had caught a tarter, as its head was greatly inflamed and it 
was nearly blind. Its mouth was full of sharp quills of that well 
defended animal, which would in a day or two have occasioned its 
death.” 
Mr. R. MacFarlane says,t ‘‘It feeds on eggs, ducks, partridges, mice, 
stranded fish, and occasionally on land captured beaver, young deer 
or sheep, while rabbits, of course, form their staple article of diet. It 
is chiefly taken in snares; some are trapped, and others are followed up 
with dogs, treed, and shot. The flesh is white and tender, and is an 
important and much-relished native country product. The female is 
*N. A. Wood says, ‘‘While trapping on Sand Point in 1855-6, Mr. Fittenger 
took fifteen individuals of this species, He was apparently very sure of the identity 
of the form, distinguishing it from the Wild Cat by the long ear tufts (Mich. Geol. 
& Biol. Surv. Pub. for 1911, p. 311). 
t Quadrupeds of N. Amer., I, 1846, p. 138. 
t Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., XXVIII, 1905, p. 692. 
