It will be seen that when the lynx passes his head through the snare he only needs to give a slight pull to open the slip knot and release the spring pole.
All the skulls of bear, puma or mountain lion, wolves, foxes and sometimes those of lynx and wild cat are of ready sale if they contain good sets of teeth.
Many fox and lynxsnare trappers in the North use small brass wire.
To prevent the rabbits from biting a cord snare, rub it well with the dropping of the lynx or fox and also, never use any green wood other than spruce or balsam, as any fresh green wood is sure to attract the rabbits.
Sea otter are handled the same as fox, lynx and marten, that is, fur side out.
LYNX should be cased and after drying properly are turned fur side out, same as foxes.
Here in Western Ontario, says a well known trapper, where the lynx seldom take bait, they may be taken quite easily in snares set on snowshoe trails.
As the resort of rabbits is a young growth of country, there are alsolynx in the greatest numbers.
The lynx by this time, having become a pretty cross cat, makes matters worse and the hunter finds him hanging dead, at times twenty or thirty feet from the earth.
The lynx has long legs and carries his head straight in front of him and takes a snare by pushing thru it, or by a rush, never crouching and then springing.
The lynx are fond of the smell of castor, as indeed are most animals, so the hunter rubs a little on a tree at each side of his snare for the cat to rub against when he comes that way.
This lynx strongly resembles the one we have just described, except in the length of the tail and tuft on the ears, from which we may infer that the Canadian Lynx is a variety from that of the old continent.
The lynx inhabits cold and at most temperate climates, while the caracal is to be found only in the warmest countries.
To the truelynx this imaginary one has no affinity but in name.
The second is the Little Panther of Oppian, which the ancients have distinguished by no particular name, but which modern travellers have called Ounce, corrupted from the name of lynx or lunx.
Klein has here advanced, I must declare I could never learn from any other authority that the lynx is an inhabitant of the warm climates of Asia and Africa.
In vain he described how deadfalls were built and where they must be placed, how many signs of lynx and wildcat he had seen that summer, and how sure they were to secure some of these valuable furs.
A deer would never enter a crevasse, nor a wildcat or lynx ever leave the shelter of woods to wander in open sunlight.
The lynxinhabits North America as far south as California.
Thus the pale greyish or slightly brownish-grey shades of the lynx can be reproduced on white rabbit or hare by this process.
I learned the call myself, not perfectly, but well enough to bring squirrels down from the topmost branches of tall pines, to have foxes and lynx approach me, and to get rabbits.
Still when at night we hear the tingling call of the lynx up in the woods, we yearn for a willing dog and a taut bowstring.
There, stooping low, they saw the spotted legs of a lynx softly stalking the birds.
Young's arrow, having been a blunt barbed head, still lodged in his chest, and as thelynx succumbed to death I took his picture.
Lazy, sleepy cat, bothlynx and wildcats, we meet not infrequently on our travels.
They say he is silent, and that this classic scream is made by a lynx in the mating period.
He did not want to be compelled to shoot the beast in self-defence, for, this being the firstlynx he had ever seen, he wanted to study him.
The astonished lynx seemed to shrink into himself, as he flattened against the ground, grown moveless as a stone.
The beautiful bird bounded into the air as if hurled from a spring; and a great lynx landed on the log, digging his claws fiercely into the spot where the grouse had stood.
The lynx glared at the young king, scornfully unacquainted with his kingship.
Crouching over his double booty, a paw on each, the lynx glared about him in exultant pride.
As the bird rocketed off through the trees the lynx glared after him, and emitted a loud, screeching snarl of rage.
And the young king stared at the lynx with lively, unhostile interest.
The lynx eyed him venomously for some seconds, then dropped lightly from the perch, and stole off to hunt in other neighbourhoods, realising that his reckless outburst of bad temper had warned all the coverts for a quarter of a mile around.
Every lynx track in the neighbourhood had a toe missing on the right forefoot.
Thus when the snow lies deep, the yard becomes their spacious citadel, and the despair of pursuing lynx or panther.
I thought it would be strange if a morning passed without the arrival of some mysterious billet for Mr. Lynx--(LYNX makes a movement towards the L.
If I am not satisfied, she insists on my fighting you; and if I am, she is determined to make Mrs. Lynx beg her pardon.
Enter LYNX dragging out his wife, she is pale and agitated.
The young person that we saw Mr. Lynx following, and striving to speak to, was joined by an elderly lady in black.
LYNX falls in a chair, hiding her face in her hands.
Our friends are as much surprised at receiving an invitation from Mrs. Lynx as we were.
At the time of the young lady's disappearance there remained a small balance in my favour on her account, for extra's, and of which I think it probable that Mr. Lynx is not aware.
LYNX is discovered in his morning gown, reading a newspaper.
In Country Life in America for June, 1905, a well-known nature writer shows a lynx trail, as perfectly as it can be illustrated, as that of a fox.
THE LYNX WHAT the cougar is as an enemy to the useful big game, the bob-cat is to small game and the young of big game.
Its device was a lynx with upturned eyes, tearing a Cerberus with its claws.
But the lynx (Lynx vulgaris) perhaps lingers in remote parts, and the brown bear (Hrsus arctos) still survives in the dense forests of the Lower Engadine.
The Canada lynx (Lynx Canadensis) is moderately abundant in some seasons in the more southern part of the district.
In his report Superintendent Sanders writes:—“The fur catch during the past season has improved; lynx were plentiful in the far north; they have been very scarce for some years and are now reappearing with the rabbits.
The species of lynx found in forests in the United States is the red or bay lynx.
Only a very inexperienced person could mistake the spoor of the lynxfor that of any other animal.
The lynxwas known to the ancients but was exhibited much more rarely in Rome than the lion and leopard, because even then it was so much more difficult to take alive.
He says: "A few months sufficed to teach my young lynx her name, 'Lucy.
Almost all animals and birds are its prey, although only the strongest lynx will attack deer.
Once, during the day, a lynx leaped lightly across the trail, under the very nose of the lead-dog, and vanished in the white woods.
The lynx was the only sign of life they had seen in two days, and it, leaping velvet-footed and vanishing, had been more like an apparition.
On the advice of their parents the boys presented the lynx to the Natural History Society, by whom it was carefully mounted and placed in a prominent position, with a card at its feet giving the credit to the donors.
Since then Ray and Jack are always eager to take friends and visitors to the museum, and to make sure that they do not miss the section in which the big lynx stands so well to the front.
You can often manage very well without brains if only you have the necessary teeth and muscle and claws; and the old lynx had them, without a doubt.
The lynx stood on the brink and studied the proposition before him.
Another day the lynxtried it, and fared even worse than the fisher--not the Canada lynx, with whom we are already somewhat acquainted, but the bay lynx.
Now there are trappers who say that a Canada lynx is a fool and a coward, that he will run from a small dog, and that he makes his living entirely by preying on animals that are weaker and more poorly armed than he.
My brother came in one day from a long tramp on snow-shoes, and told how he had met one of them standing guard over the remains of a deer, and how the lynx had held him up and made him go around.
They talked as much over that meal as the ducks had over theirs, but the lynx language is very different from that of the water-fowl.
The fisher had had some sense, and would probably have succeeded if he had been a little more careful, but the lynx was a fool.
The lynx was gone--not even a broken bone of him was left--but there in the trodden and blood-stained snow was the record of an awful struggle.
While the lynx is sufficiently dependent on the snowshoe hare that its population corresponds closely in fluctuation with that of its "host," the bobcat has a much less discriminating appetite.
In all there are a dozen subspecies of Lynx rufus in North America.
Description: A bobcat distinguished from the lynx by having small ear tufts, a more rufous color, and a black band which crosses only the upper surface of the tail tip.
A golden eagle occasionally may strike a lamb and knock it from a ledge, or a high ranging bobcat or lynx may be lucky enough to snatch a very young one away from its mother, but these are rare occurrences.
This night visitor was not moose or caribou, or was it one of the lesser hunters, lynx or wolverine, or a panther wandered far from his accustomed haunts.
His Majesty the King has a lynx eye; no item escapes his notice; and he gives as much attention to the details of everyday garb as to those of clothes for merry or solemn occasion.
The Accademia de Lincei, founded in Rome in 1603, with the object of encouraging a taste for natural history, adopted the name and device of the lynx because the members should have the eyes of a lynx to penetrate the secrets of nature.
The Lynx Felis Lynx, or mountain cat, is found in the northern parts of Europe, Asia and America, and climbs the highest trees.
So, after making a hearty supper, they went sorrowfully upon their way to find a new open spot in the river where the lynx would not be watching for them.
He told Shaggycoat that they must not use the opening in the ice any more or go upon the land, for a lynx had found their hiding-place and would watch by their front door until he dined upon beaver meat.
The wildcat and the lynx were about as fond of beaver as of fish and they could watch for both at the same time, which made it doubly interesting.
The unfortunate wood-cutter had fallen a victim to one of those ferocious lynx bands, that range the woods in extreme winters when hunger drives them to hunt in company.
The hunter silently held up a lynx and an otter, which he had lately snared, and seemed to forget the presence of strangers in contemplating his game.
For his ambition is to take all sorts of game, in every possible way; and though I have, or might have had, the history of all his hunts by heart, neither lynx or otter has yet figured in the scene.
