MAMMALS 287 



tail ringed with black; length 900 mm.; tail 170 mm.; hind foot 180 mm.; 

 weight up to 20 lbs.: Nova Scotia to the Gulf of Mexico and into 

 Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific; in wooded regions. 



Subspecies of L. ruff us 



L. r. ruff us (Schr.). Eastern States; southward into Georgia. 



L. r. floridanus (Rafinesque). Color darker: Florida and Georgia 

 west to Louisiana. 



L. r. texensis (Allen). Belly and inner surface of legs white, with 

 brown spots: southern Texas. 



L. r. calif or nicus ]Mearns. Size large; color dark: coast region of 

 southern California. 



L. r. eremicus M earns. Color pale: deserts of the Mexican border; 

 southern California. 



L. uinta Merriam. ^Mountain wildcat. Color buff, grizzled with 

 gray and black, with black spots; white beneath; tail with 2 or 3 black 

 bands: Wyoming; Colorado; Utah; New Mexico. 



L. gigas Bangs. Color cinnamon rufus above, much spotted and 

 streaked with black ; length i ,000 mm. ; tail 1 80 mm. ; hind foot 200 mm. : 

 Nova Scotia. 



L. fasciatus Raf. Pacific wildcat. Color chestnut brown above, 

 pale on the sides and white, spotted with black beneath; terminal 

 third of tail black; length 890 mm.; tail 170 mm.: coastal California 

 to British Columbia. 



Subspecies of L. fasciatus 



L. f. fasciatus Raf. Washington and Oregon. 



L. f. pallescens Merr. Color hoary gray: northern California and 

 northward; eastwards to Wyoming and Colorado. 



L. f. oculeus Bangs. Back darker, without stripes or spots; sides 

 gray; tip of tail white; length 770 mm.; tail 139 mm.; hind foot 158 mm.: 

 coast region of California north of San Francisco. 



L. baileyi Merr. Plateau wildcat. Similar to L. rujfus, but paler 

 and with a shorter tail: Arizona to Texas; southern Colorado. 



L. canadensis Kerr. Canada lynx. Color gray, mottled with 

 brown; tail-tip black; length 1,000 mm.; tail 100 mm.; hind foot 225 

 mm.; weight up to 30 lbs.; legs thick; feet very large: northern America, 

 in forested regions from Pennsylvania and northern Michigan to 

 Hudson Bay and Alaska; southward in the Rockies as far as Colorado, 

 and in the Sierras as far as Mount Whitney; extinct in the eastern 

 States. 



