476 ■ CARNIVORA 



with long creamy-white hairs. Tail like back above, clear, 

 light huffy below, the entire tip (about 40 mm.) black; a few 

 black spots on upper surface which tend to arrange themselves 

 in three transverse bands. 



Fig. 100. 

 Lynx pardellus. 



SJiuII. — The skull of Lynx pardeUus differs conspicuously from 

 that of L. lynx and Felis silvestris in the high, flattened inter- 

 orbital region and anterior portion of brain-case, and abruptly 



