290 Frerp Museum or Narturat History — Zoétoey, Vo. XI. 
said to bring forth from two to five, and not infrequently as many as 
six, at a birth annually in June and July, the period of gestation being 
about three months. The young are about the size of a puppy, with 
eyes partly open, but are very helpless for several days. They are 
suckled for about two months.” 
It is claimed that full-grown Deer are occasionally killed by these 
animals. Numerous instances are cited by Mr. E. T. Seton,* as well 
as several of the older writers, including Audubon and Bachman. 
Mr. S. N. Rhoads states,t ‘‘They will not hesitate to fasten them- 
selves on the necks of deer, trusting to bring them down by sheer 
exhaustion and blood letting before the deer can manage to drag them 
off by running through brush or branches of thick trees, or by jumping 
in the water.”’ 
It is extremely doubtful if a Canada Lynx will ever attack man 
unless wounded or cornered so that it cannot escape, but I can say 
LA. p L. subsolanus 
Map illustrating approximate range of the Canada Lynx (Lynx canadensis) in eastern United 
States and Canada. Its range formerly extended as far south as Illinois and Indiana. 
* Life Histories of Northern Animals, II, 1909, pp. 692-693. 
{+ Mamm. of Penn., 1903, p. 140. 
