50 Bangs Notes on Lynxes of Eastern North America. 



Size of an old adult <$ skull from Bay St. George, Newfoundland.* 

 (No. 3798, collection of E. A. and O. Bangs) : basilar length, 112.2 ; occipi- 

 tonasal length, 125.4; last upper molar to foramen magnum, 70.6; zygo- 

 matic breadth, 95 ; mastoid breadth, 58.2 ; breadth across roots of canines, 

 37.6 ; greatest length of single half of mandible, 93.2. 



Size. Type ($ old adult) : total length, 919 ; tail vertebrae, 109 ; hind 

 foot, 219; ear from notch, 80. 



Lynx gigas sp. nov. 

 (PI. II, Fig. 1.) 



Type from fifteen miles back of Bear River, Nova Scotia, tf old adult, 

 No. 4951 , collection of E. A. and O. Bangs. Taken by a trapper Decem 

 ber 11, 1895 (measured, skinned, and sexed by O. Bangs). 



General characters. Very stout and powerfully built ; size very large ; 

 colors rich with much black on upper parts ; triangular spot of gray on 

 ear very small ; skull large and strong; audital bullse broader and flatter 

 than in L. ruffas; dentition, especially canine teeth, very much heavier 

 than in L. ruffus. 



Type (in winter pelage) : Under fur cinnamon rufous, paling off on sides 

 and becoming more intense on back and on inner sides of flanks ; long 

 hairs, cinnamon and black, the black irregularly mixed in spots and 

 streaks which are most conspicuous along middle of back ; ears with short 

 pencil of black hairs ; upper surface of ear black, with small triangular 

 spot of dark gray ; tail above dull cinnamon, somewhat mixed with black, 

 below white, tip black ; under parts dull white, spotted with black, a 

 pectoral collar of cinnamon; under surfaces of feet and hands black. 



Cranial characters. Skull (pi. i, fig. 1) very large and massive ; audital 

 bullie broad and flat ; basioccipital wide ; distance across roots of canine 

 teeth great ; mandible very heavy. 



Size of the type skull (tf old adult) : basilar length, 117.2 ; occipitonasal 

 length, 132.2; last upper molar to foramen magnum, 72.6; zygomatic 

 breadth, 98.4 ; mastoid breadth, 60 ; breadth across roots of canines, 39.2 ; 

 greatest length of mandible, 92. 



A skull of Lynx raffias raffias from East Hartford, Connecticut f ($ old 

 adult), measures: basilar length, 111 ; occipitonasal length, 124.8 ; last 

 upper molar to foramen magnum, 70.2; zygomatic breadth, 94; mastoid 

 breadth, 55.8 ; breadth across roots of canines, 34.4 ; greatest length of 

 single half of mandible, 86.2. 



Size. The type (J* old adult) : total length, 1001 ; tail vertebrae, 177 ; 

 hind foot, 200. 



*The skull of the type is somewhat injured by a rifle bullet which 

 passed through it lengthwise, 

 t No. 1405, collection of Charles F. Batchelder, Cambridge, Mass. 



