Notes on Lijn.ns of Eaderti North America. 49 



2. Li/ii.rxabsolanuH sp. nov., an island form, contined to Newfoundland. 

 The subgenus Cermria is represented in eastern North America by 

 three forms : 



1. Lijnx raffas ?v(/».s- (Guldenstadt) ranging over the whole central re- 

 gion from about northern Georgia north to the coast of Maine. 



2. Li/nx rufns floridamis (Raf.) occupying the whole of Florida, and 

 extending west along the Gulf coast to Louisiana and north on the At- 

 lantic coast certainly to southern Georgia. L. foridauns is so strongly 

 marked a form that I think it will prove a distinct species when speci- 

 mens are procured at points where it meets the range of rufus. It is 

 large, but lightly built, with very small feet and hands, and darker than 

 rufus, from which it ditiers in color pattern also, being much spotted 

 and having black waved streaks on the back. The skull (pi. i, fig. 4) 

 presents the extreme of slenderness and ' nipping in ' of the rostrum. 



;5. Lynx gigas (sp. nov.) confined to the Province of Nova Scotia, where 

 it is apparently insulated. It is a much larger and more powerful animal 

 than L. rufus, of a brighter and deeper color, with a larger skull, flatter 

 audital bullee and much heavier dentition. 



Descriptions of New Species. 

 Lynx subsolanus sp nov. 



(PL II, Fig. 2.) 



Type from Codroy, Newfoundland. cJ' old adult, No. 1190, collection 

 of E. A. and O. Bangs. Collected by Ernest Doane June 13, 1894. 



General characters. — Size and proportions as in L. canadensis, from which 

 it differs in much darker and richer color. 



Color. — Type (in summer pelage) : Under fur on sides cinnamon rufous 

 throughout, on back black basally and hazel terminally; long hairs 

 I much longer than those of under fur) of three kinds: (1) wholly black ; 

 (2) wholly dull hazel, and (.'5) banded with hazel, yellowish gray, and 

 black ; predominating color of whole uppei- ]>arts black and hazel irregu- 

 larity varied ; face dull yellowish gray, upper surface of ear black, with 

 a lai-ge triangular spot of dark gray, pencil black ; legs and arms dull 

 yellowish hazel, faintly spotted with darker; tail very short, dull hazel 

 above, dirty white below, black at tip ; belly wood brown with irregular 

 spots of black, the long hairs dirty white. 



Kitten about one-third grown (No. 5754 from Bay St. George, New- 

 foundland). Whole upper parts (including legs and arms) yellowish 

 cinnamon, somewhat spotted and 'lined' with blackish; ears with long 

 pencil, as in tlie adult ; tail cinnamon with black tip ; under parts vary- 

 ing from soiled white to wood brown and faintly spotted with black. 



Cranial characters. — The skull of L. subsolanus (pi. i, fig. 2) is similar in 

 all its characters to that of L. canadensis. 



