LYNX 471 



1834. Lynchus Jardine, Naturalists' Library, Mamm., ii, p. 274 {Felis lynx 

 Liniiffius). 



1857. Lynx Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 161 (Sub-genus of Felis). 



1867. Ccrvaria Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, p. 276 (Lyncus pardinus = 

 Lynx pardellus Miller ; type fixed by Miller and Rehn, Proc. 

 Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xxx, p. 199, December 27, 1901). Not of 

 Walker, 1866. 



1903. Eucervaria Palmer, Science, N.S., xvii, p. 873, May 29, 1903 (Substi- 

 tute for Gervaria Gray). 



Tijj}c species. — Felis lynx Linna?us. 



Geographical distribution. — Northern forested portions of both 

 Old and New Worlds ; in Europe south to the Mediterranean 

 coast and west to the Atlantic (perhaps within historic times to 

 Great Britain). 



Characters. — Similar to Felis but without small upper pre- 

 molar, form heavier and less typically feline, ears tufted. 



Bemarks. — As in the case of the genus Felis the limits of the 

 genus Lynx are not clearly understood. As here restricted the 

 group includes about a dozen named, but for the most jaart 

 imperfectly known forms peculiar to the Northern Hemisphere. 

 Two of them occur in Europe. 



KEY TO THE EUROPEAN SPECIES OF LYNX. 



Length of lower cheek-teeth together about 85 mm. ; 

 skull relatively long and low, the interorbital 

 convexity moderate ; back and sides never thickly 

 spotted, usually without dark markings ; cheeks 

 not conspicuously whiskered (Northern and cen- 

 tral Europe) L. lynx, p. 471. 



Length of lower cheek-teeth together about 30 mm. ; 

 skull relatively short and deep, the interorbital 

 convexity abrupt ; back and sides thickly spotted 

 (Iberian Peninsula) L. jjcirdcllits, p. 475. 



LYNX LYNX Linmi^us. 



1758. [Fells'] lynx Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., i, 10th ed., p. 43 (Sweden). 



1792. Lynx \mlgaris Kerr, Anim. Kingd., Systematic catalogue inserted 



between pp. 32 and 33 ; described, p. 157. 

 1792. Lynx vulgaris alba Kerr, Anim. Kingd., Systematic catalogue inserted 



between pp. 32 and 33; described, p. 157 (Forests of Sweden). 

 1792. ? Lynx vulgaris melina Kerr, Anim. Kingd., Systematic catalogue 



inserted between pp. 32 and 33 ; described, p. 157 (Banks of the 



Volga near Gazan, Russia). 

 1798. -P[eZis] borealis Thunberg, Beskrifning pa Svenske Djur, IMamm., 



p. 14 (Heavy forests of northern Sweden). 

 1798. Felis kattlo Schrank, Fauna Boica, i, p. 52 (Bohemia). 

 1820. Felis lyncula Nilsson, Skand. Fauna, i, p. 14 (Wooded and moun- 

 tainous regions of Scandinavia). 

 1825. Felis lupulinus Thunberg, Denkschr. k. Akad. Wissensch., Miinchen, 



IX, p. 189 (Northern Scandinavia). 

 1825. Felis vulpinus Thunberg, Denkschr. k. Akad. Wissensch., Miinchen, 



IX, p. 192 (Near Upsala, Sweden). 



