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of the Cascades through Washington and Oregon (V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna 

 No. 55 (June), p. 268, Aug. 29, 1936) to Siskiyou (Mount Shasta) and Lassen 

 (Plumas Junction) Counties in northern California (Grinnell, Dixon, and Lins- 

 dale, The fur-bearing mammals of California, vol. 2, p. 605, Aug. 10, 1937), 

 east through central and northern Nevada (Hall, Mammals of Nevada, p. 277, 

 July 1, 1946) into Idaho (Davis, The Recent mammals of Idaho, p. 150, Apr. 5, 

 1939) and Utah, except southern and southeastern parts (Durrant, Univ. Kansas 

 Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, p. 441, Aug. 10, 1952) . 



Lynx ruf us f asciatub Rafinesque* 



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



November 1817. 

 1897. Lynx fasciatus Merriam, Mazama, Portland, vol. 1, p. 224, October 



1897. 

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



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

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



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

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



vol. 21, No. 13, p. 348, Jan. 24, 1924. 

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



No. 2, p. 115, Sept. 26, 1933. 

 Type Locality. — Northwest coast; based on Lewis and Clark's description of 

 specimens obtained near the mouth of the Columbia, on Netul River (now Lewis 

 and Clark River) near Astoria, Oreg. (V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 55 

 (June) , p. 269, Aug. 29, 1936) . Range. — Humid and heavily forested area west 

 of Cascade Mountains from southwestern British Columbia south through Wash- 

 ington, Oregon (V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 55 (June), p. 269, Aug. 29, 

 1936), and the humid redwood coast belt of northwestern California to Mendo- 

 cino County (Grinnell, Dixon, and Linsdale, The fur-bearing mammals of Cali- 

 fornia, vol. 2, p. 599, Aug. 10, 1937) . 



Lynx rufus calif ornicus Mearnsf * 



1897. Lynx rufus californicus Mearns, Preliminary diagnoses of new mam- 

 mals of the genera Lynx, Urocyon, Spilogale, and Mephitis, from the Mexi- 

 can boundary line, p. 2, Jan. 12, 1897. (Preprint of Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 20, p. 458, Dec. 24, 1897.) 

 1899. Lynx (Cervaria) fasciatus oculeus Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. 

 Club, vol. 1, p. 23, Mar. 31, 1899. (Nicasio, Marin County, Calif. Re- 

 garded as indistinguishable from californicus by Grinnell and Dixon, Univ. 

 California Publ. Zool, vol. 21, No. 13, p. 347, Jan. 24, 1924.) 

 Type Locality. — San Diego, San Diego County, Calif. Range. — South-central 

 Oregon, south through main part of California west of the Great Basin and south- 

 eastern desert and southeast of extreme humid coast belt, except on open plains, 

 to and across the Mexican boundary in the San Diegan subfaunal district (Grin- 

 nell, Dixon, and Linsdale, The fur-bearing mammals of California, vol. 2, p. 

 590, Aug. 10, 1937) into northwestern Baja California; and the Sierra Nevada 

 and eastern foothills in the vicinity of Lake Tahoe in extreme central western 

 Nevada (Hall, Mammals of Nevada, p. 278, July 1, 1946) . 



