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Habits — This animal is very destructive to smaller 

 wild game and to young lambs. An occasional lynx is 

 found in the Panguitch district, according to J. W. Hum- 

 phrey ; and E. C. Shepard estimates that there are fifty in 

 the Cache national forest. They are, however, plentiful, 

 according to William M. Anderson of Vernal, throughout 

 the whole Uintah mountains. A. W. Jensen estimates that 

 there are fifty in the Uinta forest district alone. 



Harry Krupp has killed several animals of this species 

 in Utah just south of the Wyoming line, several of the 

 skins being in the possession of F. A. Wrathall.- The big 

 feet of this animal readily distinguish it from the wild cats. 



Heavily furred lynx skins of large size bring the trap- 

 per as high as $60.00 each ; and the very poorest skins are 

 worth about $2.00 each. 



UINTA MOUNTAINS LYNX: 

 MOUNTAIN WILD CAT 



FELIS UINTA (Merriam) 

 Lynx uinta Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XV, 1902, p. 70. 



Description — Size large; tail very long with two black 

 subterminal bands, black tips. Skull long, narrow, sagittal 

 crest present ; ascending arm of maxillary broad, under jaw 

 heavy, teeth small. Color: Above buffy grizzled with gray 

 and black; beneath white with black spots, these becoming 

 bands on inner sides of arms and. thighs; throat fulvous, 

 crossed by a fulvous brown band ; V-shaped black mark on 

 anterior part of throat; tail with two or three blackish 

 bands above the black tip. (Elliot.) 



Distribution — The type locality of this cat is the south 

 slope of the Uinta mountains, Uinta county, Wyoming. 

 Dr. Merriam informs me that Lynx uinta is doubtless con- 

 fined to the high timber mountains in this state. 



BAILEY'S LYNX 



LYNX BAILEYI (Merriam) 

 Lynx baileyi Merriam, N. A. Fauna, No. 3, 1890, p. 79. 

 Fells rufa baileyi Elliot, Syn, N. A. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 

 1901, p. 297. 



Description — ^Lynx baileyi differs from Lynx rufus of 



the eastern United States in being uniformly paler above 



