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spotted coat is more common, and occasionally 
the spots are strongly marked all over the animal. 
The face of the Bajr Lynx is really very beauti- 
Photo. and copyright by W. L. Underwood, 1902. 
BAY LYNX. 
ful, and when not too fat from overfeeding in 
captivity, the body is lithe and graceful. When 
kept in large cages in the open air and sunlight, 
sheltered from storms, and not overfed, this ani- 
mal is easily kept in fine condition. In artificially 
heated buildings they do not thrive. 
This species is found in nearly all the states 
east of the Mississippi which contain large areas 
of rough forests, but are most numerous in Maine, 
the Carolinas, Florida, Virginia and Tennessee. 
In the “bad-lands” and mountains of Montana, 
Wyoming, Colorado and Texas they are really 
numerous, and feed luxuriously on the cotton- 
tail rabbits that are now so abundant in that re- 
gion. Varieties of this species extend westward 
to the Pacific coast states. East of the Missis- 
sippi River, an average of about twenty speci- 
mens are caught alive each year, and offered for 
sale. . Their value when caught is $10 each, and 
the supply exceeds the demand. 
By measurement the Red Lynx is fully as 
large as the Canada lynx. The largest speci- 
men that ever came into my hands (on Pryor 
Creek, Montana) measured in length of head and 
body 31 inches, tail 7 inches, height at shoulder 
IS inches, and weighed 18 pounds. The largest 
of nine specimens killed by Mr. Roosevelt’s party 
in Routt Co., Colorado, in 1901, weighed 39 
pounds. One killed near Asheville, North Caro- 
lina, in 1900, is reported to have weighed 51 
pounds. 
No lynxes are found in the lowlands of the 
tropics, or in South America. 
THE DOG FAMILY. 
Canidae. 
Of all the wild creatures of North America, 
none are more despicable than wolves. There 
is no depth of meanness, treachery or cruelty to 
which they do not cheerfully descend. They are 
the only animals on earth which make a regular 
practice of killing and devouring their wounded 
companions, and eating their own dead. I once 
knew a male wolf to kill and half devour his fe- 
male cage-mate, with whom he had lived a year. 
In captivity, no matter how well yarded, well 
fed or comfortable, a wolf will watch and coax 
for hours to induce a neighbor in the next cage 
to thrust through tail or paw, so that he may 
instantly seize and chew it off, without mercy. 
But in the face of foes capable of defence, even 
gray wolves are rank cowards, and unless cor- 
nered in a den, will not even stop to fight for 
their own cubs. 
GRAY WOLF. 
The Gray Wolf, or Timber Wolf , 1 is really a 
formidable animal, but in its dealings with men, 
1 Ca'nis oc-ci-den-taV is. 
