THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
Its general habits are very similar to the cougar’s, but it frequents denser 
cover and is seldom seen. Few sportsmen have ever set eyes on it, and in 
Mexico it is said not to bear the ferocious character attributed to it by 
white settlers and Indians in the jungle portions of South America. The 
North American variety is about 7 feet in length with a tail of 2 feet. 
Tawny yellow above and white below, it is spotted with black along the 
back, with light centred rosettes on the sides, each with a central black 
dot. The tail is ringed black and yellow. This large cat is also found in 
Southern Louisiana, as well as Texas and New Mexico, and allied varieties 
are known in Central and South America. The ocelot ( Felis pardalis) is 
also found in the same range. 
THE CANADA LYNX 
The Canada lynx ( Felis lynx canadensis) is very common throughout Boreal 
North America, and formerly existed as far south as Pennsylvania. In 
Newfoundland, where it is very abundant, it is represented by F. 1. c. 
subsolanus , a variety somewhat darker and more richly coloured. In 
Alaska, as we should expect, there is a paler form, F. 1. c. mollipilosus. 
The sight of this animal is so keen that the ancients believed that it had 
the power of seeing through all substances, whether opaque or not. The 
Canada lynx is a savage beast with large muscular legs and paws out of 
all proportion to the size of its lean body and stunted tail. Its soft grey and 
tawny fur is extremely difficult to distinguish in the forest; and almost 
the only time it is ever seen is when it comes out on to the sand bars of 
the rivers, as it frequently does in the dusk, to drink. I have been in places 
in Newfoundland where these cats were exceedingly plentiful, and their 
tracks showing in every direction in the woods and on the sand bars, 
and have never once seen one except in a trap. The Indians and white men 
of that island catch large numbers of them: sometimes one trapper will 
kill as many as 70 to 100 in a single season. Their method of catching 
them is extremely simple. The lynx seldom springs at a bait, but will 
always reach up to it by placing its fore-paws on any log or stump. The 
natives accordingly hang a dead rabbit on a tree, just out of reach of the 
ground, and saw off another tree beside it at a convenient height for the 
lynx to place its paws. On this an ordinary gin is placed, being fixed to 
the stump, and the cat never looks to see what is there before raising his 
feet. A favourite food of this animal is the varying hare and the snow-shoe 
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