pares 
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TIE RED LYNX. 197 
further stated that whenever the latter animals are unusually 
plentiful, Lynxes will be sure to be proportionately numerous. 
Pelaze.—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. 
XLII. THE RED LYNX. FELIS RUFA. 
Telis rufa, Giildenstadt, Nov. Comm. Ac. Petrop. vol. xx. p. 
499 (1776); Elliot, Monograph of Felidee, pl. xl. (1878-83). 
Felis carolinensis, Desmarest, Mammalogie, p. 234 (1820). 
Lynx floridanus, Rafinesque, Amer. Month. Mag. vol. il. p. 46 
(1817). 
Lynx montanus, Rafinesque, Zoc. cit. 
Lynx rufus, Rafinesque, loc. cit. 
Lynx aureus, Rafinesque, Coc. cit. 
Lynx fasciatus, Rafinesque, loc. crt. 
Felis maculata, Vigors and Horsfield, Zool. Journ. vol. iv. p. 
381 (1829). 
Lyncus rufus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. outs 3G 
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. 
