MARCH 31, 1899 VoL. I, PP. 23-25 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
A NEW LYNX FROM THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
THE lynx here described occupies the coast region of California 
north of San Francisco Bay. It is more closely related to true 
Lynx fasciatus Raf.* than to either of the forms lately described 
by Dr. Mearns from southern California.” The new form 
undoubtedly intergrades with Z. fascva/us at the north of its range, 
but it differs very much in color from typical examples of that 
animal from the coasts of British Columbia, Washington, and 
northern Oregon. My two specimens of Z. fasciatus are from 
Chilliwack, B. C., and represent that handsome species in its 
extreme. 
The new form may be known as 
Lynx (Cervaria) fasciatus oculeus® subsp. nov. 
Type, from Nicasio, Marin Co., Cala., On middle-aged adult, no. 8633, coll. of 
E. A. and O. Bangs, collected Dec. 11, 1898, by Charles A. Allen. 
Subspecific characters.— Size and proportions as in true Z. fasciatus, but 
differing much in color, being more dusky on the back, and lacking the general 
ferruginous coloring of that form; ear with a large triangular gray mark, the 
ear of LZ. fasctatus is nearly black — the gray triangle being very small— hardly 
noticeable. Skull similar in every way to that of L. fasciatus, very different 
from the skull of the eastern Z. ruffus. 
1 Cf. Baird, Mamm. N. Am., 1857, p. 96. 
2 Proc. U. S. National Mus., Vol. XX, no. 1126, advance sheet, Jan. 12, 1897, pp. 1-2. 
3 Oculeus — sharp-sighted. 
