24 BANGS — A NEW LYNX ee 
Color.— Type, autumn pelage, upper parts: under fur gray at base, cinna- 
mon to ochraceous buff at ends; long hairs ringed with black and grayish 
brown, and often black-tipped; the black predominates along back, giving a 
dark, grizzled appearance, but without any definite spotting or striping of 
black; sides much grayer, with the ochraceous buff of under fur showing 
through; top of head and face grizzled gray, lined and spotted with black; 
cheeks whitish, lined and spotted with black; a large black marking at corner 
of mouth ; ear black, with a large triangular gray mark, that does not extend 
across the ear anteriorly, a small black pencil, and soiled whitish inside; arms 
dull grayish brown above, the ochraceous buff under fur showing through, 
conspicuously spotted with brownish black, below white, broadly banded with 
black; legs grayish brown, much shaded with dull ferruginous, whitish on 
inside near body, spotted and banded with black and blackish brown; under 
side of feet and hands black; tail rusty brown above, with a broad black 
subapical semicircle and five other less distinct black semicircles, below and 
at tip white. Under parts white, pale cinnamon on lower sides bordering belly, 
spotted and barred with black; a broad collar of ochraceous buff, barred with 
black, across under side of neck. 
Another specimen, no. 4789, from Lower Lake, Lake Co., Cala., collected 
Feb. 25, 1895, by W. C. Colt, is in full winter coat (the type apparently not 
being so). The pelage is longer and softer, and the general color rather paler 
and grayer, with the black banding of the arms and legs more pronounced. 
Measurements —Type, &, middle-aged adult: total length, 778.; tail 
vertebrz, 139.7; hind foot, 158.75; ear, 72.8 mm. 
Skull, type: basal length, 94.8; occipitonasal length, 106.8; zygomatic 
width, 80.6; mastoid width, 52.; least interorbital width, 22.4; width across 
postorbital processes, 55.6; width just behind postorbital processes, 42.8; 
length of nasals, 30.; length of single half of mandible, 76.2 mm. 
Remarks.— I give the new form as a subspecies of Lynx fascia- 
tus, because I consider the western lynxes specifically distinct from 
the eastern Z. ruffus series. The cranial differences are so great 
that it does not seem probable that the two sets of forms inter- 
grade. Lynx fasciatus Raf., LZ. batleyt Merriam, L. eremicus 
Mearns, the new form, and probably Z. ca/zfornicus Mearns (though 
I have not seen the skull of the latter), form a compact group of 
closely related forms, with similar skulls. The skull of this 
group differs very much from that of the Lyx ruffus series in its 
general roundness, its wide, inflated brain-case, not much con- 
stricted behind postorbital processes, differently shaped audital 
bullz, and other details, as pointed out by Dr. Merriam.* 
1 North American Fauna, no. 3, Sept. 11, 1890, p. 80, pl. XI. 
