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iiiitis for the species, states, however, that rufous and grey specimens may 

 be found together. It appears to be uncertain whether this race is native 

 to Mexico or to Paraguay. The so-called kuichua of Brazil, the Fc/is 

 nmcnira of Prince Maximilian of Wied, is a yellow phase of the species 

 taking its name from the great relative length of its tail. Both in this 

 form and the chati the length of the head and body may be nearly 27 

 inches ; that of the tail varying between 14 and 19 inches. Generally 

 speaking, the tiger-cat is a more southern form than the ocelot. 



THE RED, OR BAY LYNX 



(Feiis \_Ly/!x\ nifci) 



(Plate VIII. Fig. 10) 



For accurate information regarding this lynx (which was first named 

 by the German naturalist Giildenstadt in the year 1777) and its numerous 

 local races we are entirely dependent upon the writings of modern 

 American naturalists, there being no series of specimens in England 

 sufficiently large to admit of an independent opinion being formed with 

 regard to certain disputed points. By some English writers, notably the 

 late Professor St. George Mivart,' the red lynx was regarded as nothing 

 more than a local phase of the common lynx ; but this view has been 

 shown by Mr. Outram Bangs'^ to be quite untenable, the skulls of the 

 common and the red lynx being easily distinguishable bv certain characters 

 ot the hinder part of the palate. To point out the details of this ditference 

 in a work ot the present nature would obviously be out of place, and the 

 reader must accordingly be content with the tact that such differences do 

 exist. So important, indeed, are these ditferences considered by the gentle- 



1 The Cat, p. 425 (1881). 

 - Proceedings Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. xi. p. \- (1897). 



