50 Baii(/fi — Notes oil Li/n.rc.s of Ea-^fcni Xoiih. Antcrica. 



Size of an old adult (J" skull from Bay St. George, Newfoundland.* 

 (No. 3798, collei'tion of E. A. and 0. Bangs) : basilar length, 112.2; occipi- 

 tonasal length, 125.4; last upi)er molar to foramen magnum, 70.H; zygo- 

 matic breadth, 95 ; mastoid breadth, 58.2 ; l)readtli across roots of canines, 

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



Size.— Type (cj^ old adult): total length, 919; tail vertebrie, 109; hind 

 foot, 219; ear from notch, 80. 



Lynx gigas sp. nov. 



(PI. II, Fig. 1.) 



I'ype from fifteen miles back of Bear River, Nova Scotia. (J^ old adult, 

 No. 4951, collection of E. A. and 0. Bangs. Taken by a trapper Decem- 

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



General did racters. — 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. niffus. 



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

 spot of dark gray ; tail above dull cinnauKJU, 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 cliaraders. — Skull (pi. i, fig. 1) very large and massive ; audital 

 bulhe broad and fiat; basioccipital wide ; distance across roots of canine 

 teeth great ; mandible very heavy. 



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

 length, 132.2; last upper molar to foramen magnum, 72. (> ; zygomatic 

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

 greatest length of mandil)le, 92. 



A skull of Li/iix riiffiis rajfas from East Hartford, C(jnnecticut f (rf* 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 (^ 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. 



