Vol. XV, pp. 71-72 March 22, 1902 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A NEW BOBCAT (LYNX UINTA) FROMyTHE 

 ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 



BY C. HART MERRIAM. 



Two species of Bobcats inhabit the Rocky Mountain region. 

 One is Lynx baileyi, the common species in Arizona, New Mex- 

 ico, and the lower parts of Colorado; the other is an unde- 

 scribed species, of much larger size and more boreal distribu- 

 tion which in Colorado and Utah is restricted to the mountains. 

 It may be known as follows: 



Lynx uinta sp. nov. 



Type from Bridger Pass, south slope Uinta Mountains, Wyoming. 

 No. Hfil $ *d-i U. S. National Museum, Biological Survey Collection. 

 <:k)llected May 11, 1890 by Vernon Bailey. Original No. 1156. 



Characters. — Size, largest of the subgenus; hind foot very large (200 

 mm.); tail very long (195 mm. in type), with 3 black bands in front of 

 the black tip. 



Color. — Upperparts buffy, grizzled and indistinctly dappled with gray 

 and black but without distinct markings; underparts white with black 

 spots, £he spots becoming bands on inner sides of thighs and underside 

 of arms; throat pale fulvous, washed with white and crossed by a dis- 

 tinct fulvous brown band which becomes dusky toward ends; a V-shaped 

 black mark on anterior part of throat; tail with 2 or 3 distinct blackish 

 bands on upper surface in front of black tip [in baileyi there is only one 

 blackish band and one fulvous band] . 



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