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bits, according to Mr, Hodgson, the central and lower regions of 

 Nepal. There is a well-stuffed adult specimen of this Cat in the 

 British Museum ; it is a magnificent animal. 



Giildenstiidt's description and figure of the Fells cJiaus from the 

 shores of the Caspian (Nov. Comm. Acad. Petrop. xx. p. 483, t. 14) 

 agree with this animal in most particulars, and represent the short 

 tail of the genus Chavs, the tail being rather more than one-fourth 

 of the entire length of the body, or one-third of the length of the 

 body and head (30 + 11 in.). The fur is described as " fusco-lutes- 

 cens, guise et regionis umbilicalis albidus ; pectoris et abdominis di- 

 lute rufescens." In the figure the undcrpart is represented as much 

 paler than this description justifies, or than may have been intended. 

 Otherwise it is a good representative of the Nepal animal. I have 

 not seen any specimen from the Caspian. The red ear is common 

 to the 'Ne'pal F. ajjinis and most specimens ofi^. caUijata from Africa. 



Tribe II. Lynxes— LYNCIN A. 



Head short, subglobular. Legs elongate, the hind ones longest. 

 Tail short, or very short. Ears pencUled at the tip. Pupils of eyes 

 oblong. The face of the skull short ; the lateral processes of the 

 intermaxillee and the frontal bones elongate, nearly reaching each 

 other, and separating the nasals from the maxiUffi. The orbits in- 

 complete, large ; the lobes on the inner side of the upper flesh-tooth 

 moderate-sized. 



12. LYNCUS. 



Tail very short. Limbs elongate. 



* Pads of feet overgrown with hair. Animal lurf/c. Lynx. 



1. Lyncus borealis. B.M. 



Fells hiix, Blainv. Odeog. Felis, t. 3 (skull) ; Blasius, W. £. p. 173, 



f. lOG (skull). 

 Lyncus borealis, Grag, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 275. 



Hub. Northern Europe and Asia. 



2. Ljrncus lupulinus. B.M. 



Felis lupulina, Thimh. 



Lyncus lupulinus, Grag, P. Z. S. 1807, p. 276. 



Hub. Northern Europe ; Sweden. 



3. Lyncus canadensis. B.M. 



Felis canadensis, Geoffr. 



Lyncu3 canadensis, Grag, P. Z. S. 1807, p. 278. 



Hub. North America. 



