CANADIAN LYNJf. 
Their skins are highly valued ; and, though 
very common, sell equally dear in Norway, 
Russia, and even as far as China, where they 
are much used for muffs and other furs* 
" That the pencils of hair," concludes 
Buffon, " on the tips of the ears, form not a 
distinctive character, appears from this fact- — 
that there exists, in the district of Algar, 
called Constantine, a species of Caracal with- 
out these pencils, and which resembles the 
.Lynx, except that it's tail is longer. The 
colour of it's hair is reddish, with longitudinal 
black stripes from the neck to the tail, de- 
tached spots on the flanks disposed in the same 
direction, a black half circle on the top of the 
fore-legs, and a band of rough hair on all the 
four legs, extending from the extremity of 
the foot to above the heel : and this hair in- 
clines upward ; instead of downward, like the 
hair of every other part of the body," 
Such is the account given by Buffon, in his 
Supplement to the article Lynx, accompany- 
ing his figure of the Canadian species. 
He 
