Bailey's Bobcat 
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Colorado it is found only in the highest parts of the timbered moun- 
tains, and seems to be generally distributed through the State within 
these limits, but nowhere particularly common . There is a specimen 
in the Colorado Museum of Natural History at Denver, which was 
taken near Breckenridge, Summit County. 
Habits. — As intimated above, the Canada Lynx is a forest 
dweller, and makes its home in the heavy timber of our high 
mountains. We have heard but little about its habits in this 
State, but they are well known in the north, where many 
generations of hunters and trappers have been taking them 
for their fur. MacFarlane says that "in the Mackenzie 
River District the lynx feeds on eggs, ducks, grouse, mice, 
stranded fish, and occasionally on a land-captured beaver, 
young deer, or sheep, while rabbits, of course, form their 
staple article of diet." He says the flesh is white and tender, 
and much relished by the native and other inhabitants of 
that region. 
From two to six young are said to be born in a litter and 
they are brought forth in May or June. 
Lynx baileyi. Bailey's Bobcat 
Lynx baileyi Merriam, A^. A. Fauna, No. 3, p. 79 (i8go). 
Type locality. — Moccasin Spring, Coconino Co., Arizona. 
Measurements. — (Of type from Merriam): Total length, 29.25; 
tail vert., 5.25; hind foot, 6.5; ear from crown (dried skin), 2.35. 
A specimen from northwest comer Baca County, Colorado, very 
old female, total length, 30.25; tail vert., 5.75; hind foot, 6.70. 
Three males, Graham Co., Arizona, 33, 5.75, 7. 
Description. — (From the above mentioned Baca County specimen, 
which was taken May 22d, and is in a rather worn faded pelage): 
Color above, buffy, mixed with some white-tipped hairs, and along 
back with some black-tipped hairs, making that portion distinctly 
darker; upper part of back of ears and spot at base black, the space 
between these two areas being gray; small tuft of black hairs on ear; 
top of head and face like rest of upper parts; a buffy pectoral band ; 
chin white ; rest of under parts white and buffy, with indistinct 
black spots or markings; under parts of feet blackish; insides of 
legs spotted or marked with blackish ; under part of tail whitish ; 
upper part like back, with terminal black crescent on tip and an 
