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Title: Diseases and enemies of poultry
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Pearson, Leonard, 1868-1909 Warren, Benjamin Harry, 1858-
Subjects: Poultry Birds
Publisher: (Harrisburg, C.M. Busch, state printer
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in color, as well as in size; and two or three individuals,taken in the late spring or early autumn, which I have ex-amined, are decidedly more brownish-red in color, particularlyon the sides, than those killed in the winter. The male is con-siderably larger than the female. In the month of January,1890, I secured five females in Cameron and Potter counties,Pennsylvania, which weighed respectively ten and one-half,twelve, twelve and three-fourths, nine and one-fourth, andthirteen pounds, or an average of about eleven and one-halfpounds each. Three adult males which I captured in Pennsyl-vania during the months of January, February and April,weighed respectively fifteen and one-fourth, seventeen, andeighteen and three-fourths pounds, or an average of seven-teen pounds each. In the winter of 1892 Senator Harry A.Hall, of St. Marys presented me with a very fine male whichhad been killed near his home in Elk county. This animal,which is the largest I ever saw weighed, tipped the scales at
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441 twenty-six and one-half pounds. Hunters and woodsmen whomi beUeve to be reliable, have assured me that Wildcats aresometimes taken which weigh thirty-flve, forty and fifty pounds Habitat.—This species or its varieties occur generallythroughout the United States from the Atlantic to the Paciflc.Tolerably common in the mountains and sparsely settled dis-tricts of Pennsylvania. A VARIETY OF COMMON NAMES. TJie majority of hunters and woodsmen who residein sections of Pennsylvania where the Wildcat or BayLynx occurs, have various local names for this waryand prowling animal. The appellations Bob-cat, Cata-mount, Mountain cat and Tiger cat are perhaps theones which are most frequently employed. Thesenames, or any others which may be heard, it is safeto say, have reference to Lynx rufus, which is doubt-less the only species of its genus found in the State. During the past five years I have made very carefulinquiries in all sections of the Oommouwealth wherethe Canada Lynx was reported

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