FAUNA AMERICANA. 99 



Dimensions. Total length, two feet three inches; 

 of the tail, three inches nine lines ; of the ears, 

 two inches. 



Description. Differing from the Lynx proper- 

 ly so called, in the shortness of the tail; body 

 covered with long grayish hairs, mixed with 

 white, spotted and striped with yellow, more or 

 less deep ; head grayish, mixed with white and 

 yellow, slightly striped with black in some places; 

 end of the nose and borders of the lower jaw, 

 black ; whiskers white, about three inches long ; 

 ears furnished with long white hair within, mouse 

 gray externally, external border black, internal 

 border 3 ellowish; pencils of the ears composed of 

 black hairs about seven or eight lines in length ; 

 tail short and thick, well furnished with hair, first 

 half reddish-white, last half black ; abdomen, hind 

 legs, interior of the fore legs, and end of the feet, 

 of a dirty white ; nails white, about six lines in 

 length. 



Inhabit Canada, Labrador, &c. 



Species. 



5. Felis riifa, Guldenstaedt, Gmel. Schreb, 

 Rafinesque, Ame. Mon. Mag. 1817, p. 46, sp. 3. 

 " Chat-cervieTy^ of furriers. 



Char. Essent. Tail short, white beneath and 

 at the point ; ears furnished with a pencil of hairs ; 

 colour dark or reddish yellow, spotted with brown 



