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tinent north of Mexico, which are yet sufficiently 
wild to shelter them from man. They inhabit 
with equal facility forests, mountains, canyons, 
Drawn by J. Carter Beard. 
CANADA LYNX. 
sage-brush plains, and even deserts. They prey 
chiefly upon rabbits and hares, grouse, prairie- 
“dogs,” ground squirrels, and any other living 
creatures, except porcupines, which they can 
catch and kill. They are not courageous, or 
disposed to fight except when cornered, and so 
far as voluntarily attacking human beings is 
concerned, Lynxes are no more dangerous than 
rabbits. 
In North America the genus Lynx is repre- 
sented by two well-marked types. 
The Canada Lynx 1 is a heavily-furred, short- 
bodied, long-legged bob-tailed wild cat of a pep- 
per-and-salt gray color, standing about 18 inches 
high at the shoulders. It is readily recognized 
by the long 'pencil of stiff, black hair rising from 
the tip of each ear, and its huge, hairy paws. Its 
big eyes and long side whiskers give it a really 
terrifying countenance, particularly when it 
snarls. To the lone hunter who camps in the 
dark and gloomy forests inhabited by this creat- 
ure, it seems a very dangerous animal; but in 
reality it is not so. Those who have hunted it 
say it is not courageous, and at close quarters is 
easily killed with a stick. It is a good climber, 
swims well, but on land runs rather poorly, with 
a galloping gait. Although found in a few local- 
ities in the northern United States, its real home 
is in the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, and the 
1 Lynx can-a-den'sis. 
Northwest, up to Latitude 60°. A good aver- 
age-sized male specimen collected by Professor 
Dyche in British Columbia measured as follows: 
Height, 17 j inches; head and body length, 32 
inches; tail, 5 inches; girth, 17J inches. 
The weight of a full-grown specimen is 22 
pounds, and the young are two in number. This 
species is rarely seen in captivity, and is al- 
ways desired by zoological parks and gardens. 
Living specimens are worth from $10 to $40 
each. 
The Bay Lynx 2 is also called the Red Lynx, 
Wild Cat or Boh Cat, according to the locality 
in which it is found. Owing to variations in its 
color, and in some other characters, several sub- 
species have been described, but these are too 
closely related to the type to be set forth sepa- 
rately here. This species is marked by the ab- 
sence of the long ear-pencil of the Canada lynx 
(although sometimes a small pencil is present), 
by the small feet and the warm brown tone in 
the color of the fur. 
Western specimens are sometimes so strongly 
marked with round black spots that we feel im- 
pelled to recognize the “Spotted Lynx” as a dis- 
tinct species; but when we find others from the 
Atlantic coast also spotted, besides others of the 
standard reddish gray, we are compelled to refer 
all of them to the species of the Bay Lynx. In 
the Atlantic states, the standard color for this 
E. R. Sanborn, Photo., N. Y. Zoological Park. 
THE OCELOT. 
animal is a mixture of rusty red, gray and black- 
ish brown, with the red so prevalent as to have 
given a name to the creature. In the West, the 
2 Lynx ru’fus. 
