32 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1897. 



32. Lynx ruffus (Gueldenstaedt). 7 Eastern Bay Lynx. 



Not yet exterminated in Sussex and Passaic Counties, but very 

 rarely taken. 



I have been unable to get any record of the Canada Lynx for this 

 region, though it probably wandered thither in earlier times. 



33. Felis ooncolor (L.). Puma. 



The same remarks which I have previously made regarding the 

 wolf are applicable to this animal. 



34. Scalops aquaticus (L.). Carolinian Mole. 



Not rare in suitable localities. None were secured. 



35. Condylura cristata (L.). Star-nose Mole. 



An old female and four nearly mature young were taken in the 

 same trap on successive days in the underground passage-ways of a 

 spring near Nolan's Point, Lake Hopatcong. The wrist and fore- 

 arms of the female are encircled by a clear bufly band. The throat, 

 breast and median abdominal line are suffused with dark orange. 



36. Blarina brevicauda (Say). Northern Mole Shrew. 



This Blarina is exceedingly abundant in all sorts of situations. 

 In Sussex and Passaic Counties it approaches closely in size to the 

 Canadian specimens. 



7 The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia having recently come 

 into possession of the series of " Novi Co7nmentarii" of the Imperial Academy 

 of Sciences of St. Petersburg, I am enabled to consult for the first time the 

 reference made by Schreber in Volume 3 of the Saugtliiere, to the original 

 description of the Felis ruff a of Gueldenstaedt. 



Schreber's reference on p. 412 of the Saugthiere to Gueldenstaedt is faulty. 

 It reads " Felis rufa Guldenst, Nov. Comm. Acad. Imp. Sc. Petr., torn 20, p. 

 499." The specific name rufa should be ruffa, and Gueldenstaedt's name 

 should have an e in the first syllable. Baird's reference (Mam. N. A., 1857, 

 p. 90) quotes ruffa correctly. In common with other writers, Baird may have 

 thought Gueldenstaedt's spelling ruffa, a typographic error ; in any event he 

 adopted the more modern spelling, rufus- 



An examination of Gueldenstaedt's article " Chaus Animal Feli Affine De- 

 scriptio" in the twentieth volume of the journal referred to, shows that he 

 based his new Lynx solely on the figure and description of the " Bay Cat," 

 species number 136 of Pennants' Synopsis of Quadrupeds. Pennants' refer- 

 ences to this animal point unmistakably to the wild cat of " New York " as 

 the type of Gueldenstaedt's Felis ruffa. That the latter intended to use the 

 spelling ruffa instead of rufa can hardly be questioned, as the word is so spelt 

 six times in his paper. An examination of older Latin lexicons shows that 

 this construction of the word is perfectly admissible. 



The names of our North American Lynxes of the ruffus type may be listed 

 as follows : 



1. Lynx ruffus (Gueldenstaedt). Eastern Bay Lynx. 



2. Lynx ruffus floridanus (Rafinesque). Florida Bay Lynx. 



3. Lynx ruffus texensis (J. A. Allen). Texas Bay Lynx. 



4. Lynx rilffus baileyi (Merriam). Great Basin Bay Lynx. ► 



5. Lynx ruffus fascialus (Rafinesque). Pacific Bay Lynx. 



