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Show RING-TAILED WILDCAT CAUGHT A ring-tail cat, an animal decidedly rare in northern Michigan, has been caught by Herman Thlele. a Negaunee man. in a trap set at Goose lake, five miles distant. dis-tant. It was the first specimen ever captured cap-tured by either Mr. Thlele or his father, and together they have been engaged in trapping for the past forty-five years. The animal has fire, silky gray fur. Though there are some black stripes down the back, the most atrlking characteristic charac-teristic Is a series of black rings around the bushy tail. In this appendage it differs dif-fers radically from the ordinary wildcat. The wildcat, like the lynx, is possessed of a bobtail, while the ring-tail cat has a tall over a foot In length and very busby. St. Paul Dispatch. |