﻿PRELIMI^^AEY 
  DIAGNOSES 
  OF 
  KEW 
  MAMMALS 
  OF 
  THE 
  

   GENERA 
  LYNX, 
  UROCYON, 
  SPILOGALE, 
  AND 
  MEPHITIS, 
  

   FROM 
  THE 
  MEXICAN 
  BOUNDARY 
  LINE. 
  

  

  By 
  Edgar 
  A. 
  Mearns, 
  M. 
  D., 
  

  

  Assistant 
  Surgeon, 
  United 
  States 
  Army. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  the 
  fifth 
  of 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  papers 
  giving 
  preliminary 
  descriptions 
  

   of 
  the 
  new 
  mammals 
  collected 
  on 
  the 
  recent 
  survey 
  of 
  the 
  boundary 
  

   between 
  Mexico 
  and 
  the 
  United 
  States.' 
  Detailed 
  descriptions, 
  with 
  

   illustrations 
  of 
  the 
  new 
  forms, 
  and 
  comparisons 
  with 
  their 
  allies 
  will 
  

   appear 
  later 
  in 
  the 
  report 
  on 
  the 
  collections 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  International 
  

   Boundary 
  Commission. 
  

  

  LYNX 
  RUFUS 
  EREMICUS, 
  new 
  subspecies. 
  

   DESERT 
  LYNX. 
  

  

  Type.— 
  No. 
  G0676, 
  U.S.N.M. 
  (Collection 
  International 
  Boundary 
  

   Commission.) 
  Skin 
  and 
  skull. 
  Adult 
  male, 
  from 
  New 
  River, 
  6 
  miles 
  

   northwest 
  of 
  Laguna 
  Station, 
  on 
  the 
  Colorado 
  Desert, 
  in 
  San 
  Diego 
  

   County, 
  California. 
  Collected 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Mearns, 
  May 
  5, 
  1891. 
  Original 
  

   number, 
  3500. 
  

  

  Description 
  of 
  type. 
  — 
  In 
  winter 
  pelage. 
  Above 
  pale 
  yellowish 
  brown, 
  

   mixed 
  with 
  gray 
  and 
  black, 
  obscurely 
  spotted 
  and 
  striped 
  with 
  brown 
  

   and 
  blackish 
  from 
  the 
  nape 
  to 
  the 
  root 
  of 
  the 
  tail. 
  Legs 
  ochraceous- 
  

   buff, 
  mixed 
  with 
  grayish. 
  Under 
  side 
  of 
  body 
  and 
  of 
  tail, 
  white. 
  

   Chest, 
  belly, 
  and 
  inner 
  side 
  of 
  limbs, 
  spotted 
  or 
  banded 
  with 
  black. 
  

   The 
  sides 
  and 
  outside 
  of 
  limbs 
  are 
  spotted 
  with 
  yellowish 
  brown. 
  Tail, 
  

   reddish 
  brown 
  above, 
  white 
  below, 
  with 
  a 
  subterminal 
  spot 
  of 
  black. 
  

   Ears, 
  pale 
  graj^, 
  with 
  a 
  blackish 
  spot 
  at 
  base, 
  and 
  black 
  on 
  apex 
  and 
  

   terminal 
  pencil; 
  the 
  usual 
  gray 
  spot, 
  in 
  this 
  form, 
  extends 
  as 
  a 
  band 
  

   clear 
  across 
  the 
  convexity 
  of 
  the 
  ear; 
  inner 
  surface 
  of 
  ear, 
  white. 
  

   Under 
  side 
  of 
  hind 
  foot 
  with 
  a 
  narrow 
  longitudinal 
  line 
  of 
  black, 
  bor- 
  

   dered 
  by 
  sooty. 
  Crown 
  and 
  cheeks 
  with 
  obsolete 
  rusty 
  stripes. 
  Sides 
  of 
  

  

  ' 
  Proc. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Nat. 
  Mus., 
  XVn, 
  1894, 
  pp. 
  129-130; 
  XVIII, 
  1895, 
  pp. 
  443-447, 
  551-565; 
  

   XIX, 
  1896, 
  pp. 
  137-140. 
  

  

  [Advance 
  sheets 
  of 
  this 
  paper 
  were 
  published 
  January 
  12, 
  1897.] 
  

  

  Proceedings 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  Museum, 
  Vol. 
  XX— 
  No. 
  1126. 
  

  

  457 
  

  

  