72 CARNIVORA. 



Felis pardina. 



Felis pardina, Temm. Monog. vol. i. p. 186 ; De Selys, Index cles 

 Mamm. 



Description. — Tail short, but longer in proportion to the 

 size of the animal than in the F. Lynx-, ear- tufts very 

 distinct ; cheeks furnished with large Avhiskers ; the coat 

 and the whole of the tail covered with black spots. The 

 fur is short, the woolly and silky hair being of the same 

 length. All the upper parts of the body, the outer surface 

 of the legs, and the base of the tail bright glossy red- 

 brown, nearly the colour of the Caracal. The spots on the 

 body jet black, rather longer on the back than on the sides 

 and legs ; on the base of the tail they are small and round ; 

 the nape of the neck is streaked with narrow lines of black, 

 which also spread over the tawny fur of the face ; the upper 

 portions of the whiskers are a mixture of tawny and black, 

 the lower portions pure white ; the lips, front of the neck, 

 the middle of the belly, and inner surface of the legs pure 

 white. 



In large well-grown individuals the length of the head 

 and body is 2 feet 1|- inch ; tail, 5 inches 3 lines ; from the 

 eye to the end of the nose, 1 inch 9 lines. — F. M. 



This species is readily distinguished from its congeners 

 by its smaller size, long whiskers, the regularly black- 

 spotted fur, pervaded by a reddish tinge, and by the black 

 specks of the tail, which is without bars, and has not the 

 black tip of the other species. 



It inhabits some of the warmest regions of Europe. Is 

 found in Portugal in the mountains, and has been kiUed a 

 few leagues from Lisbon. Temminck believes it to exist in 

 Sardinia and Sicily, as well as in Turkey, and in a great 

 part of the Levant. It is given by Cook in his ' Sketches 

 of Spain ' as the Lynx of the Sierra Morena, in the south of 



