192 LLoYd's Natural History. 



Felis lupulina and F vulp'n-is, Thunbcrg, Denkschr. Ak. 



Miinchen, vol. ix. p. 189 (1825). 

 Felis virgata, Nilsson, Ilium. Fig. till. Faun. pis. iii. iv. (1829). 

 Felis borealis, Temminck, Monogr. Mamm. vol. i. p. 109 



(1827); Keyserling and Blasius, Wirbethiere Europ. p. 



6 3 (1840). 

 Lyncus twlgaris, Gray, Cat. Hodgson Coll. p. 7 (1846). 

 Felis isabelli/ia, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xvi. p. 



1178 (1847). 

 Lynacs lynx, Severtzoff, Rev. Mag. Zool. ser. 2, vol. x. p. 385 



(1858). 

 Lyncus isabellinuS) Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 267. 

 Lyncus boreal 'is ; Gray, loc. cit. 



(Plate XXIV.) 

 Characters. — Readily distinguished from the Caracal by the 

 shortness of the tail, which is less than one-fourth the length 

 of the head and body, and docs not reach the ankle ; by the 

 abundant ruff of long hair round the throat, as well as by the 

 more or less distinctly spotted coat. 



Build strong ; limbs relatively long ; the long and pointed 

 ears surmounted by a large tuft of black hairs ; fur soft and 

 thick, that of the hinder part of the cheeks being lengthened 

 so as to form a ruff partially encircling the throat ; pads of 

 feet more or less completely covered with hair. Pupil of eye 

 circular. Skull much vaulted, with a short and broad facial 

 region, the orbit incomplete behind, and the anterior upper 

 pre-molar absent in the adult. 



The colour varies from pale sandy-grey, or isabelline, to 

 rufous-fawn with a tinge of grey, and in some European 

 specimens even to ferruginous-red ; the under-parts being 

 white. In the summer coat the upper-parts are marked with 

 small black spots, which, at least in young individuals, are 

 also persistent through the winter in the European race ; but 



