MAMMALS FELIDAE LYNX CANADENSIS. 



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Europe are more difficult to ascertain from want of specimens for comparison. The less amount 

 of black at the end of the tail distinguishes it from Fells lynx and cervaria of Europe, in which 

 the terminal half of the tail is black, and where also the tail itself is longer than the head, and 

 the fur showing distinct dots or blotches on the ground color ; in this quite different from the 

 Canada lynx. These species, too, appear to have uncovered pads on the soles, with the Lynx 

 or Felis borealis ; however, the precise amount of relationship is by no means clear. The 

 JF. borealis of Thunberg is considered by Nilsson and Wagner as identical with cervaria, while 

 Keyserling and Blasius retain F. borealis as distinct, and characterize it as much like our 

 Canada lynx, except that the whiskers are stated to be black. 



European authors do not, however, seem agreed, on the whole, that there is a European species 

 corresponding with the Canada lynx, and although Temminck, in describing the latter as F. 

 borealis, says it is found on both continents, yet Wagner evidently hesitates to follow him in 

 extending its range to Europe. While, therefore, the Canada lynx may occur in Europe, or 

 one similar to it, on the other hand, what is called Felis borealis, may be, as stated by Nilsson 

 and others, only a highly developed Felis cervaria. See Keyserling & Blasius, Wirbelthiere 

 Europas, and Nilsson's Skandinavisk Fauna, I, 1847, 125, &c. 



List of specimens. 



