Plateau Red Lynx 413 



THE NORTH-WESTERN RED LYNX 



[Felis rufa fasciatd) 



The Lynx fcjsciati/s of Rafinesque (1817) is, as already mentioned, 

 regarded by Mr. Bangs as so distinct from the typical eastern red lynx as 

 (with the under -mentioned forms) to constitute a distinct species, but 

 reasons have already been given for dissenting from this view. In all, or 

 most, of these western representatives of the red lynx the skull differs from 

 that ot the typical eastern red lynx by its more rounded general form, 

 wider and more inflated brain-case, differently shaped auditory bulla, and 

 certain other structural details. It is a handsome form, met with in the 

 coast regions of British Columbia, Washington, and Northern Oregon ; 

 the general colour of the fur being rusty red, but the back, of the ears 

 nearly wholly black, with only faint indications of a grey triangular patch. 

 Its specilic name refers to the fact that the dark markings take the torm of 

 indistinct bands or streaks, instead of spots. 



THE PLATEAU RED LXNX 



{Felis riifa baileyi) 



The red lynx of the great Colorado plateau in Colorado, Utah, and 

 Arizona was described in 1890 by Dr. C. H. Merriam^ as a distinct 

 species, with the title of Lynx baileyi, but was subsequently shown by Mr. 

 Bangs "- to be closely allied to the variety fasciata. Its describer observes 

 that this animal differs from the typical red lynx of the east coast of the 

 United States by its shorter tail and softer fur. The upper-parts are 

 everywhere suffused with a huffish tint, and the dark markings of the 



1 North American Fiiiitm, No. 3, p. 79 (1890). 

 - Proceedings New England Zoo/. Club, vol. i. p. 24 (1899). 



