FIELD BOOK OF MAMMALS 



spotted with black; pale yellowish brown on throat. Total 

 length, 41 inches; tail vertebrae, 7.8 inches; hind foot, 8 

 inches; weight 31 pounds (male, not fat). Found in the 

 mountains of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico. 



Bailey Bobcat; Plateau Bobcat. — Lynx baileyi Merriam. 

 Color pattern made up of soft grays and buffy browns 

 somewhat suggestive of Canada Lynx; summer pelage 

 sometimes with strong rufous tinge; winter pelage grayer; 

 tail with one blackish and one fulvous dorsal band in front 

 of black tip. Total length, males, 36 inches; females, 34 

 inches; tail vertebrae, males, 7.2 inches, females, 6.8 inches; 

 hind foot, males, 7.6 inches, females, 7 inches. Found in 

 the southern half of California (eastern portions), Arizona 

 and New Mexico, north into Colorado, and east into Texas 

 and Oklahoma. 



Barred Bobcat. — Lynx fasciatus fasciatus Rafinesque. 



A richly colored Wildcat; upperparts chestnut-brown to 

 rusty, with grizzling of black on dorsal area; legs barred 

 with dark brown and blackish ; sides paler than back ; under- 

 parts white, heavily marked with black, terminal third of 

 tail black. Total length, males, 34.5 inches, females, 32 

 inches; tail vertebrse, males, 6.8 inches, females, 6.5 inches; 

 hind foot, males, 6.8 inches, females, 6.6 inches. Found in 

 northwestern (coastal) California, in Oregon, Washington, 

 and southwestern British Columbia; in humid coastal strip 

 throughout. 



Pallid Barred Bobcat. — Lynx fasciatus pallescens Merriam. 

 Smaller and paler than typical /a5aa/«5, especially on head 

 and face; black on ear restricted and gray patch large 

 (winter) ; general color hoary gray. Total length, females, 

 32 inches; tail vertebrae, 5.6 inches; hind foot, 6 inches. 

 Found in "Northeastern California (in Lassen, Modoc, and 

 eastern Siskiyou counties) east across northern Nevada and 

 northern Utah to Colorado; also north through eastern 

 Oregon and eastern Washington, and thence east through 

 Idaho into Wyoming and perhaps farther." (Grinnell and 

 Dixon) 



Nova Scotia Bobcat. — Lynx gigas Bangs. 



"Very stout and powerfully built; size very large; colors 

 rich with much black on upperparts; triangular spot of 

 gray on ear very small; skull large and strong." (Bangs) 

 Upperparts (winter) mixed cinnamon, gray and blackish; 

 tail above, dull cinnamon tipped with black; below, whitish, 

 throat patch dull cinnamon; soles of feet_ blackish. Total 

 length, males, 40 inches; tail vertebrae, 7 inches; hind foot, 

 8 inches. Found in Nova Scotia; limits of range unknown. 



The Lynx is in many respects a big, overgrown House-cat, 

 with greater potentialities for killing its prey. It is unlike 



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