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further stated that whenever the latter animals are unusually 

 plentiful, Lynxes will be sure to be proportionately numerous. 

 Pelade. — Lynx-skins, according to Mr. Poland, are a rather 

 important article in the fur-trade, the Hudson Bay Company 

 usually selling from 8,000 to 40,000 annually, although in 1887 

 the number was swelled to over 70,000. Many skins are dyed 

 black, and others brown or grey, while others, again, are sil- 

 vered. The long fur of the under-parts is much used for boas 

 and muffs, when these articles are in fashion, as it is for trim- 

 mings to coats and jackets; while officers' busbies in the English 

 Hussar regiments are made of Lynx-skin dyed dark brown. The 

 price varies considerably according to the demand, fine skins 

 realising from forty to forty-two shillings each, while those of 

 inferior size and quality sell at about from four to fifteen 

 shillings. 



XLIII. THE RED LYNX. FELIS RUFA. 



Felis rufa, Giildenstadt, Nov. Comm. Ac. Petrop. vol. xx. p. 



499(1776); Elliot, Monograph of Felidse, pi. xl. (1878-83). 

 Felis mrolinensis, Desmarest, Mammalogie, p. 234 (1820). 

 LynxfloridanuS) Rafinesque, Amer. Month. Mag. vol. ii. p. 46 



(1817). 

 Lynx montanus, Rafinesque, loc. cit. 

 Ly?ix rufus, Rafinesque, loc. cit. 

 Lynx aureus, Rafinesque, loc. cit. 

 Lynx fascia tus, Rafinesque, loc. cit. 

 Felis macu/ata, Vigors and Horsfield, Zool. Journ. vol. iv. p. 



381 (1829). 

 Lyncus rufus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 276; id., Cat. 



Carniv. Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 38 (1869). 

 Characters. — This more southern form, which is likewise re- 

 garded by Professor Mivart as a mere variety of the ordinary 

 Lynx, is distinguished by the American zoologists on account 

 of the rufous tinge assumed by the whole pelage in summer. 



