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BULLETIN 99, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Heller, except that in the Cuban specimen the blackish tail rir;gs are 

 connected along the upper side. 



Genus LYNX Kerr. 



1792, Lynx Kerr, Anim. Kingd., Syst. Cat., No. 288, p. 155. {L. lynx.) 

 1843. Caracal Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 46. {L. caracal.) 

 1858. Urolynchus Severtzow, Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris, ser. 2, vol. 10, p. 389. 

 September. (L. caracal.) 



The United States National Museum collection contains no speci- 

 mens of the caracal in addition to those listed below, except of the 

 Arabian and Cape of Good Hope forms. Actual comparison with 

 specimens of true nuhicus is therefore impossible, but authors gen- 

 erally have of late referred the East African caracal to the nuhicus 

 of Fitzmger, which is long antedated by Felis caracal nuhicus Fischer. 



LYNX CARACAL NUBICUS (Fischer). 



1829. F[elis\ caracal y nuhicus Fischer, Synopsis Mamm., p. 210. (Xubia.) 



Specinriens. — Four, as follows : 



British East Africa: Nairobi, 1 (Klein); Ulu Station. 3 (Rainey.) 

 Two adult specimens from Ulu Station, each with the basal suture 

 of the skull obliterated, measure as follows: 



Head and body. 

 Tail vertebrae... 

 Hind foot 



Ear 



Skull: 



Condylobasal length 



Zygomatic breadth 



Mastoid breadth 



Interorbital breadth 



Breadth of rostrum over canine. . . 



Length of mandible 



Front of upper canine to back of pm < . 



Length of upper camassial 



Front of lower canine to back of m i . . . 

 Length of lower molar 



