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range of riifux. It is Kirge, but lightly built, with very small feet and 

 hands, and darker than nifus, from which it differs in colour- pattern 

 also, beinu; much spotted and having black waved streaks on the back." 

 The skull has the narrow form of the typical ;■///;/ in an exaggerated 



degree. 



In 1899 the same writer' observed that this lynx, together with the 

 Texan race (which undoubtedly intergrades with it somewhere in Western 

 Louisiana or Eastern Texas), probably belongs to a group distinct from both 

 the eastern red lynx and the western red lynxes (which are regarded by 

 him as distinct species). "They have many peculiarities," he adds, " in 

 common, differing from each other chiefly in colour. They are long- 

 legged, small -footed, large-sized, lightly -built lynxes, with very long, 

 narrow, high skull, with much 'pinched in' rostrum [muzzle], and rather 

 lieht dentition." 



THE TEXAN RED LYNX 



{Felis rufd texcmis) 



As mentioned above, this form is closely allied to the last, with which 

 it doubtless intergrades in Western Louisiana or Eastern Texas. It was 

 described many years ago by Audubon and Bachman under the name of 

 Fclis ri/fiis iHiiciiliitiis, but was renamed Lynx tcxciisis in 1895 by Dr. J. A. 

 Allen,- who regarded it as a distinct species. Details appear to be lacking 

 as to the exact tone of colouring by which this race is distinguished trom 

 the preceding form, but it is specially characterised by the lull spotting 

 ot the coat. 



1 Proceedings Keti) England Zoo/. C/iih^ \u\. i. p. 25. 

 - Bidlitiii (,f Americiin Museum of Niiturnl History, vol. \ii. p. 188 ; sec also vol. viii. p. 78 (1S96). 



