Comparative illustration of bobcat and Canada lynx
Date 1906
Source The life of animals
Author Ernest Ingersoll
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ernest_Ingersoll_-_lynx_rufus_%26_lynx_canadensis.png

The bobcat or bay lynx (Lynx rufus) is a North American cat that ranges from southern Canada to central Mexico, including most of the contiguous United States. The bobcat is an adaptable predator that inhabits wooded areas, as well as semidesert, urban edge, forest edge, and swampland environments.

The Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) or Canadian lynx is a North American mammal of the cat family, Felidae. It ranges across Canada and into Alaska as well as some parts of the northern United States and extending down the Rocky Mountains to Colorado.