1 88 Lloyd's natural history. 



indistinct spots. The spots are roundest and smallest on the 

 middle line of the back, oblong on the sides, and forming in- 

 terrupted lines on the shoulders and thighs, these lines being 

 most distinct on the outside of the fore-legs, while there are 

 four well-marked broad cross-streaks on the front edge of the 

 thighs. Tail cylindrical, reaching to the ground, spotted at 

 the upper part of the base, and with eight or nine interrupted 

 rings on the upper part of the remaining portion, w T ith a black 

 tip. Nose brown, with short hair. Forehead and cheeks like 

 the back, but with smaller spots, and without any distinct dark 

 streaks from the back edge of the eye. The ears ovate, acute, 

 pale brown externally, with a terminal pencil of blackish hairs, 

 and whitish on the edge within. Chin, hinder parts of the 

 upper lip, under parts of the head, throat, chest, belly, inside 

 of legs, and hind-feet whitish-brown ; the chin being whitest, 

 and the inside of the hind-legs and feet darkest. There is a 

 large blackish spot on the upper part of the inside of the fore- 

 legs, as well as two small cross-bars on the front edge of the 

 inside of the thighs, the hinder part of the hind-feet being 

 blackish. In the one described skull, the anterior pre-molar, 

 although small, is present. Length of head and body, 23 }< 

 inches; of tail, i2)< inches; height at shoulder, 12 inches. 



Distribution. — Transcaspia, eastwards to Afghan and Russian 

 Turkestan. 



XL. THE CARACAL. FELIS CARACAL. 



Felts caracal, Giildcnstadt, Nov. Comm. Ac. Petrop. vol. xx. 

 p. 500 (1766) ; Elliot, Monograph of Felidoe, pi. xli. (187S- 

 83); Blanford, Mamm. Brit. India, p. 88 (1S88). 



Lynx caracal, Fischer, Zoognosie, p. 200 (18 14). 



Caracal melanoiis, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 46 (1843). 



Caracal berberorum, Matschie, S.B.Nat. Fr. Ges. Berlin, 1C92, 



p. 144. 



f [Hate XX I II.) 



