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This Lynx has now been in confinement in Calcutta for 
a period of nearly six years. It was purchased in Darjeel¬ 
ing, in January, 1878, and was then quite a young animal, 
standing about 12 inches at the shoulder, and covered with 
soft fluffy hair. It was perfectly tame, and was kept, 
by the Bhutea who owned it, merely with a woollen 
strap round its chest and under its shoulders, and with 
a cord attached to it. It was at first under my care 
for two years before it was placed in the Gardens, 
and it remained quite docile and friendly with those 
whom it knew, and played and romped like a pup, 
but always with a collar and chain. During the day 
it was tied up in the shade and was never allowed 
into the sun, and doubtless the success that attended the 
rearing of this animal, which is the inhabitant of a very 
cold region, may be attributed to this precaution. At 
night it slept in the stables. It had a regular attendant 
who bathed it every morning and fed it, and if hungry it 
made its wants known by its peculiar bell-like call. Its 
general habit was to sleep much by day, and to be 
very lively, and sometimes noisy at night. When nearly 
adult it met with a serious accident. Wishing to stalk 
some passing cat it sprang over the railing of a lower 
verandah and was nearly strangled by its chain. When 
lifted up it was found that the left thigh bone was fractured. 
It was laid down carefully on its right side, and with great 
docility the animal maintained this position for weeks until 
the fracture had united. While a patient, it permitted itself 
to be carried about from place to place, and purred with 
pleasure when it received more than usual attention. In 
the end of 1879, the lynx was placed in the Gardens, but 
as it had been accustomed to human society, my friend Mr. 
