FELIS. 233 



Distribution — Northern Europe, Scandanavia, Russia, and 

 Siberia, North America, as far south as Pennsylvania and Cali- 

 fornia. 



a. Skin Hudson's Bay British Museum [Ex.] 



b. Skin Alumette Isle, Ottawa J. H. Gamier [Ex.] 



c. Skull Upton, Maine, U.S.A. W. Theobald, 1869. 



d. Skull Umbagog Lake, Maine, W. Theobald, 1869. 



U.S.A. 



Felis rufa. 



'?&X\srw\z., Guldenstadt Nov. Comm. Acad. Petrop., xx, p. 499 (1776) 5 



Blyth Cat. no. 190, p. 65 ; Elliot Monog. Felidae no. 39. 

 Felis carolinensis, Desmarest Mainm , p. 234 (1820). 

 Lynx floridanus ^ 

 Lynx montanus / 



Lynx rufus > Rafinesjue Amer. Month. Mag., ii, p. 46 (181 7)*. 



Lynx aureus V 



Lynx faciatus J 



Felis maculata, Vigors and Horsfield Zool. jfourn., iv, p. 381, pi. xiii (1S29). 



Distribution — North America to Mexico. 



a. Skin Lake Amhee, Ontario J. H. Garnier [Ex.] 



i. Skin juv. Blue Ridge, Ontario J. H. Garnier [Ex.] 



c. Skull North Carolina Rev. F. Fitzgerald, A.S.B. 



Felis domestica. 



Felis domestica, Gmelin Syst. Nat., i, p. 80 (1788) ; Elliot Monog, Felidae 



no. 41 ; Thomas Linn. Trans. (2), v, p. 57. 

 FeWs ca.t\xs, Erxlebejt Syst. Reg. Anitn., p. 518 (1777); Blyth J. A. S. B., 



XXV, p. 442; id. Cat. no, 183, p. 62; Severtzoff Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), 



xviii, p. 50; Stanford Yarkand Mamm., p. 17. 

 Felis torquata, F. Cuvier Hist, Nat. Mamm., livr. liv, with plate, (1826) ; 



Sykes P. Z. 5., 1831, p. 102 ; Horsfield Cat. E. I. Mus., p. 49 ; Thomas P. 



Z. S., 1886, p. 55 ; Blanford Mammals, p. 85. 

 Felis maniculata, Jenyns Brit. Vert. Anim,, p. 15 (1835). 

 Felis megalotis, Miiller Over de Zoogdieren in Tern. Verhandl., p. 54 



(1839-44). 

 YQ\\s\iw\Xo'n\, Blyth J. A. S. B., xv, p. 169 (1846); id. J. A. S. B., xvii, 



p. 247. 



The Domestic Cat of India differs considerably from the English 

 domestic cat ; Blyth distinguishes two races of Indian domestic 

 cats — (i) the spotted type in which the spots tend to form them- 

 selves into streaks, especially on the anterior parts of the body; 

 the tail of this form is slender and of uniform thickness, with a 

 series of black rings ; this form is frequently found in a feral state 

 and it is probable that it was from an animal of this kind that 

 Felis torquata of F. Cuvier was originally described ; (2) the other 

 form vvas called by Blyth the Chaus-coloured cat; it is of 

 a uniform fulvous colour with barred legs and a ringed tail, 

 resembling F. chaus ; in its proportions, however, it differs from 



