CARNIVORA: FELIDAE 779 



western Algoma and western Manitoulin Island Districts westward to south- 

 eastern Manitoba; Upper Peninsula of Michigan westward across Wisconsin 

 and Minnesota; western and southern limits as yet unknown. 



Lynx ruf us floridanus Rafinesque* 



1817. Lynx floridanus Rafinesque, Amer. Monthly Mag., vol. 2, No. 1, p. 46, 



November 1817. 

 1858. Lynx rufus var. floridanus Baird, Mammals, in Rep. Expl. Surv. Railr. 



to Pacific, vol. 8, pt. 1 (Washington, 1857) , p. 91, July 14, 1858. 

 1897. Lynx ruff us floridanus Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 11, 



p. 49, Mar. 16, 1897. 

 1911. Lynx floridanus Gifford, Florida Rev., vol. 6, No. 6, p. 461, December 

 1911. (Shore of Biscayne Bay, 6 miles south of Miami, Dade County, Fla.) 

 Type Locality. — Florida. Range. — Florida north at least to Randolph County, 

 southwestern Georgia (Harper, Journ. Mamm., vol. 10, No. 1, p. 84, Feb. 11, 

 1929) and southeastern Virginia (Peterson and Downing, Contr. Roy. Ontario 

 Mus. Zool., No. 33, p. 3, Apr. 8, 1952), west across Alabama and Mississippi to 

 alluvial swamps of eastern, southern and southeastern Louisiana (Lowery, Occ. 

 Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ. No. 13, p. 235, Nov. 22, 1943), and thence 

 northward to western Kentucky and southeastern Missouri (Peterson and Down- 

 ing, loc. cit.). 



Lynx rufus uinta Merriamf * 



1902. Lynx uinta Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 15, p. 71, Mar. 

 22, 1902. (Regarded by Grinnell and Dixon, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 

 vol. 21, No. 13, p. 350, Jan. 24, 1924, as identical with Lynx rufus pallescens.) 



1932. Lynx rufus uinta V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 53 (December 

 1931), p. 294, Mar. 1,1932. 



Type Locality. — Bridger Pass, Carbon County, Wyo. Range. — From southern 

 Alberta, Glacier National Park in Montana (V. Bailey, The mammals, in Wild 

 animals of Glacier National Park, U. S. Nat. Park Service, p. 82, 1918), and 

 western North Dakota along Missouri River and in Badlands (V. Bailey, North 

 Amer. Fauna No. 49 (December 1926), p. 148, Jan. 8, 1927), south in Rocky 

 Mountains to higher mountains of northern New Mexico and along Manzano 

 and Sacramento chain of ranges between Pecos and Rio Grande Valleys to south- 

 central New Mexico (V. Bailey, 1932, loc. cit.) . 



Lynx rufus pallescens Merriamf* 



1899. Lynx fasciatus pallescens Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 16, p. 104, 



Oct. 28, 1899. 

 1901. [Lynx rufa] pallescens Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. 45, Zool. Ser., 



vol. 2, p. 297, Mar. 6, 1901. 

 1905. Felis rufa pallescens Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. 105, Zool. Ser., 



vol. 6, p. 371, Dec. 6, 1905. 

 1924. Lynx ruff us pallescens Grinnell and Dixon, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 



vol. 21, No. 13, p. 350, Jan. 24, 1924. 



1933. Lynx rufus pallescens Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 40, 

 No. 2, p. 116, Sept. 26, 1933. 



Type Locality. — South side of Mount Adams, near Trout Lake, Skamania 

 County, Wash. Range. — From southern British Columbia south on both slopes 



