4IO Game of Europe, W. & N. Asia & America 



skull is deeper and longer ; and the whole skull is narrower, especially in 

 the region of the muzzle. As regards the teeth, the tusks are said to be 

 stouter and the lower molar smaller than in the common lynx. 



As is indicated by its scientific and popular names, this lynx, in the 

 summer coat, is redder than the common species ; this red tinge, which in 

 winter is restricted to the thanks, making its appearance in the typical race 

 about February. The backs of the ears are black, with a larger or smaller 

 greyish triangular patch ; the upper lip has a more or less conspicuous 

 black mark, and the tip of the tail may be white, with several half-rings 

 of black above, but in other cases is black. The amount of dark spotting 

 and striping on the back varies in the different races. 



In the proportionately longer tail, the shorter ear-pencils, and the 

 relations of the maxilht to the nasal bones, the red lynx departs less widely 

 from more typical representatives ot the genus Fc/ls, such as the jungle-cat, 

 than does the common lynx. The present species is a more southerly type 

 than the latter, ranging as far south as Mexico. 



In habits this lynx is doubtless nearly if not precisely similar to the 

 common species. By American sportsmen it is usually termed the wild 

 cat. In severe weather, according to Mr. Herrick, it is often compelled 

 to prey upon porcupines in order to secure a living, and not unfrequently 

 pays tor its rashness with its life, examples having been killed in which the 

 head and throat were transfixed with porcupine-quills. 



THE EASTERN RED LYNX 



{Fclis rufa typiai) 



This, the typical, representative of the species ranges over the whole of 

 the eastern and central parts of the United States, from about the latitude 



