458 FELIS. 



rufous band on chest and abdomen slightly suffused with buff, and 

 the entire under parts blotched with black; tail above like back, with 

 black apical half-ring and several paler half-rings of blackish brown; 

 middle of tail below white, and white tip; ear black, with whitish 

 gray median patch. 



Measurements. Total length, 805; tail vertebrae, 117; hind foot, 

 1 60; ear from notch, 55. Skull: total length, 115; Hensel, 94; palatal 

 length, 41; zygomatic breadth, 78; interorbital constriction, 22; 

 breadth across postorbital processes, 52; mastoid breadth, 52.3; 

 breadth between outer corners of upper carnassials, 45.3; length of 

 upper carnassials, 14.6. 



rufa texensis (Fclis), Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1895, p. 188. 

 Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., Suppl., 1901, p. 506 (note). 



rufa maculata Vig. & Horsf., Zool. Journ., iv, 1829, p. 381. (nee 

 Kerr.) Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 296, as maculata. 

 WILD CAT. Gato monies in Mexico for all Lynxes. 



Type locality. Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. Mexican boundary line into Texas and California. 



Gcnl. Char. Fur coarse; distinct spots on back and sides. 



Color. Above chestnut brown; darkest on back, with rather 

 indistinct spots, also on outer side of legs; under parts white, with 

 large black spots; inside of thighs banded with black and chestnut; 

 tail beneath white, above tip is black. 



Measurements. Total length, about 900; tail vertebras, 126. 



rufa eremica (Lynx), Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xx, 1897, p. 457. 



Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 298. 

 DESERT LYNX. 



Type locality. New River, near Laguna Station, Colorado Desert, 

 San Diego County, California. 



Geogr. Distr. Eastern and Western Desert Tracts on the Mexican 

 Line; probably in States of Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico. 



Color. Above grizzled pale yellowish brown, spotted and striped 

 with brown and black; legs ochraceous buff, mixed with grayish; 

 under parts white, and with inner side of limbs spotted or banded with 

 black ; flanks and outer side of limbs spotted with yellowish brown ; tail 

 reddish brown above, white below, subterminal spot of black, rest 

 barred with black; ears as usual. 



Measurements. Total length, 925; tail vertebras, 170; hind 

 foot, 185. 



rufa californica (Lynx), Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xx, 1897, 

 p. 458. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 298. 



