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It was found rather far north in New 

 England for bobcats, but It is known 

 that they have been spreading northward 

 in the wake of lumbering- and other 

 operations that open up the woods. The 

 bobcat prefers open country to tores I. 

 It feeds on rabbits, chiefly, and is not 

 considered dangerous to man. The only 

 ease known of a _ bobcat jumping on a 



noridanus clawed a hunter sitting in a 

 blind, waiting for wild turkeys. It is i 

 possible the bobcat did not realize it J 

 was a man, scenting only the turkey. I 

 They will eat deer killed by men, but are I 

 not known to kill deer, after the manner 

 of the cougar, a feline more than twice 

 as heavy. 



There is no reason to suppose this is 

 a stray specimen of the "giant bobcat" 

 (Lynx rufus erigas) which inhabits Nova 

 Scotia, because that sub-species is not 

 much larger than our own, notwithstand- 

 ing its name. 



The bobcat or wildcat is' bay m color 

 and is to be distinguished from the Can"' 

 ada lynx or lucivee, which is gray, and 

 which averages not quite so ' large. The 

 bobcat (Lynx rufus) has subspecies all 

 over the United States, Mexico to the 

 tropics, and in parts of British Columbia 

 and Nova Scotia, though not in New 

 Brunswick. The Lynx canadensis is 

 found over most of Canada and in the 

 northern border States of this country, j 

 The two species are seldom found in the 

 same place. 



