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of F. ocreata with certain peculiarities added. For instance, 
the suborbital portion of the malar arch is very deep, with 
its upper margin thin and the anteorbital thickening almost 
obliterated ; the postorbital processes incline backwards, have 
a sinuous curvature, and an upturned anterior edge; the 
bullz and auditory meatus are relatively enormous, and the 
inner lobe on the upper carnassial is greatly reduced (see 
Pocock, P. Z. 8. 1907, pp. 669-674). 
Genus Lynx, Kerr. 
Lynx, Kerr, 1792, p. 41; type dyna’, Linn. 
Lynceus, Gray, 1821, p. 802 (preoce.) ; type lynx. 
Lyncus, Gray, 1825, p. 8389; type lynx. 
Lynchus, Jardine, 1834, p. 274; type lyna. 
Pardina, Kaup, 1829, p. 58; type pardellus, Miller. 
Cervaria, Gray, 1867, p. 276 (preoce.) ; type pardellus, Miller. 
Eucervaria, Palmer, 1903; type pardellus, Miller. 
Caracal, Gray, 1848, p 46; type caracal, Guld. (=melanotis, Gray). 
Urolynchus, Severtzow, 1858, p. 888; type caracal, Guld. 
Distr. Boreal and temperate latitudes of northern hemi- 
spheres as far south as the Mediterranean and Western 
Himalayas and Mexico (true lynxes) ; South-western Asia 
and the whole of Africa (caracals). 
Medium-sized, short or comparatively short-tailed cats 
with large triangular tufted ears, short, broad heads, circular 
ocular pupils and large paws with well-developed claw-sheaths, 
comparatively short, emarginate webs. 
Miller’s description of the skulls of European lynxes and 
his detailed comparison between them and the skull of 
F. silvestris make a repetition of the facts unnecessary. 
He separates the genus Lyna from Felis, laying particular 
stress upon the doubtful characters afforded by the absence 
in Lynx of the small upper premolars, That the two genera 
are closely related is obvious from Miller’s description, and 
this conclusion is confirmed by the similarity in the size 
and shape of the partition of the bullz. The principal 
characters differentiating Lynz are supplied by the slender 
and gradually attenuated nasal branch of the premaxille, the 
thinner, less depressed, and sharper postorbital processes, 
the shallower notching of the suborbital edge of the palate, 
the proximity to the canine and more forward setting of the 
first large upper premolar. 
