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hairs of median dorsal line slightly elongated and stiffened; dark 

 markings obsolete, the back and sides grayish or brownish, without 

 definite stripes; back of ear yellowish clay-color, the tip black; tail 

 with well-defined black tip. Head and body, 600 mm. ; tail, 300 mm. 

 (Miller, 1912, pp. 468, 470.) 



While this species was originally described from Sardinia, the 

 same animal is recorded by Martorelli (1896, p. 266) from the 

 Maremma of Tuscany in western Italy. 



It is found throughout Sardinia but is not numerous there, and 

 in legislation is rated as harmful (Laboratorio di Zoologia Applicata 

 a Caccia, in litt., September, 1936). 



The animal of Tuscany is said to be not rare (Colosi, 1933, p. 56) . 

 It is considered a fierce destroyer of hares, pheasants, and other 

 game and consequently is much persecuted (Martorelli, 1896, p. 279) . 



European Lynx. Lynx (Fr.). Luchs (Ger.). Lince (Sp., It.) 



LYNX LYNX LYNX (Linnaeus) 



[Felis] Lynx Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 43, 1758. (Near Upsala, 



Sweden.) 



SYNONYM: Felis borealis Thunberg (1798). 

 FIGS.: Wolf, 1867, ser. 2, pi. 6; Elliot, 1883, pi. 39; Martin, 1910, p. 117, fig. 34; 



Colosi, 1933, p. 41. 



The Lynx has suffered rather serious depletion of numbers in 

 its European range, and even total extermination in some of the 

 countries (Britain, France, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, 

 Hungary). In northern Asia, however, its status remains much 

 more satisfactory, especially in those areas where the human popu- 

 lation is still sparse. 



The form is heavier than in Felis silvestris; the legs are relatively 

 longer, the feet more robust, and the tail shorter; upper parts and 

 sides varying from yellowish brown to brownish gray; back and 

 sides never thickly spotted; cheeks not conspicuously whiskered; 

 ears conspicuously tufted at tip (Miller, 1912, p. 472). Head and 

 body, 800-1,200 mm.; tail, 190-220 mm. (Didier and Rode, 1935, 

 p. 289). 



The range of this Lynx includes the forested portions of Europe 

 and Asia: north to the tree limit; south to France, northern Italy, 

 Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria, the Ukraine, central Russia, the Altai 

 Mountains, northern Mongolia, northern Manchuria, and northern 

 Korea ; east to Sakhalin and eastern Siberia. 



"The European Lynx, Felis lynx, was ... an inhabitant of 

 Britain in the Pleistocene age, and survived until recent times, and 

 may even have lingered into the historic period" (Millais, 1904, 

 p. 168). 



