Lynx
a common name for the different varieties of Felis lynx, zoölogists think, of the different species lynx, or, as some of the genus Lyncus. The Greek lyngx was probably the caracal. Lynxes shared LYNX with leopards the duty of drawing the chariot of Bacchus; Pliny calls them the most " sharp-sighted of all quadrupeds," hence the epithet lynx-eyed. The lynxes moderate size, but larger than the true cats; limbs long, tail short and ears tipped with a pencil of hair, the cheeks bearded, and pads of the feet feet overgrown with hair; color, lightbrown or gray, more or less spotted with shade. They are fierce and savage, and prey on sheep and poultry. Their skins are valuable as fur. Felis lynx LYONS is the common lynx, found in Scandinavia, Russia, the N. of Asia, and formerly in the forest regions of central Europe; F. cervaria is a native of Siberia; F. pardina of Turkey, Greece, Sicily, Sardinia, and Spain; and F. isabellina of lynxes: F. canadensis, the Canada lynx, Tibet. The New World has also four the most N. species; F. rufa, the bay or red lynx, extending nearly over the United States , but giving place in Texas and in Oregon and Washington to F. and the S. of California to F. maculata, fasciata.
Professor Flower is of opinion that, on further investigation, all these will be found to be varieties of a single species species. lius, between the head of Ursa Major In astronomy, a constellation of Heveof Heveand the star Capella. None of the stars in the group are larger than the fourth magnitude. born in Buckland, Mass., Feb. 28, 1797.