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being relatively small. The range ot this race includes the Pacific coast 

 tract of California, and was said by its describer to extend into Lower 

 California, but this may be doubtful. 



THE LOWER CALIFORNIAN LYNX 



(Fe/is rufa penhisularis) 



Mr. O. Thomas, by whom this race was named, ^ states that it differs 

 from all the other forms of the species by its inferior size, a feature in 

 which it agrees with several other mammals inhabiting the Californian 

 peninsula. The general colour of the fur of the upper-parts is pale rufous 

 tipped with grey, a few of the hairs on the middle line of the back being 

 tipped with black. There is, however, no trace of the longitudinal black 

 markings which torm such a conspicuous feature of the pelage in the 

 Californian race. But the markings on the face and ears appear however 

 to be very much the same as in the latter, although the black spot on the 

 upper lip is nearly obsolete and the grey patch on the back of the ear does 

 not extend to its front border. 



The above description is taken from specimens in the summer coat. 

 The range of this race, which may be regarded as a dwarfed representative 

 ot the last, seems to be confined to Lower California. 



THE MOUNT SHASTA RED LYNX 



{Felis rufa pallescens) 



Even the preceding does not exhaust the varieties of the red lynx 

 recognised by naturalists in California, Dr. C. H. Merriam - having 

 described yet another, from Mount Shasta in that State, under the name ot 



1 Jnnah and Magazine of Natural History, scr. 7, vol. i. p. 42 (1898). 

 - North American Fauna, No. 16, p. 104 (1899). 



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