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americ^TbTggesj bobcat 



Boston Society of Natural History Has 

 Skin of Wildcat Larger Than Any 

 Known Heretofore 



Probably the largest bobcat on record 

 was shot in northern New Hampshire 

 on Jan. 15, by Austin H. Scott a regis, 

 tered guide of Pittsburg. N. H. Hav- 

 ing heard the Wednesday evening broad- 

 casts by Thornton W. Burgess and mem- ; 

 bers of the Boston Museum of Natural 

 History staff, Mr. Scott wrote to Mr. 

 Surges*, with the result that the mu- 

 seum has obtained the skin and 8k«H 



Mr. Scott said the wildcat when taken 

 was too heavy for fifty-pound steelyards, 

 and he estimated its weight a* between 

 fifty-five and sixty pounds. The recoicl 

 bobcat tor North America weighed less- 

 than forty pounds, according to Ernest 

 Thompson Seton in his recent book on 

 ram* animals. The heaviest hereto! ore 

 at the Boston Museum weighed twenty- 

 sight pounds. 



The skull of this bobcat is nearly an 

 inch longer than any other now at the 

 museum, according to Dr. Francis Har- 

 per, and its dry skin is fifty-one and 

 three-sixteenths inches long, as measured 

 m,,,, the tip of the nose to the end oi 

 the last tail vertebra. In life, it would be 

 fortv-eight inches long. Hung beside the 

 tsimea skin of another adult specimen. 

 It was fully a foot longer/ 



