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coat of this animal being long, thick and soft." (Sowerby, 1936, 

 pi. facing p. 288.) 



Ognev (1935, pp. 215, 231-232) reports it from Kansu, Koko Nor, 

 the Zaidam region, the Nan-Shan, Altyn-Tagh, Kwen-Lun, Tian- 

 Shan, Borokhoro, and Bogdo-Ola ranges, Kashgar, the Tarim Basin, 

 and Lob Nor. 



The systematic status of the Lynxes inhabiting various mountain- 

 ous areas from northwestern India and southern Russian Turkestan 

 to northern Persia seems to be in doubt; I am unable to determine 

 what subspecific name or names should be applied to them. This 

 vast region lies directly between the ranges of the Tibetan Lynx 

 and the Caucasian Lynx. 



The animal of Gilgit, in the valley of the Indus, has a more 

 rufous coloring than that of Tibet (Lydekker, 1900, p. 326) . 



According to Ognev (1935, pp. 214-215), the Lynx is found in 

 various localities of Russian Turkestan, including the Pamirs, the 

 western Tian-Shan, Semiretchie, the Chu River, the Kara Tau, the 

 Talassk Alatau, the Samarkand region, and the Kopet-Dagh (where 

 it is rare). It occurs in northern Afghanistan and doubtless in the 

 Persian provinces of Gilian, Mazanderan, and Astrabad; possibly 

 also in the mountains of Khorassan (lat. 37 N.). 



W. G. Heptner states (in litt., December, 1936) that the Lynx 

 occurs in small numbers in the mountains of Turkestan. Hunting 

 is limited to certain seasons in the mountains of Uzbekistan, and is 

 forbidden on the Kopet-Dagh. 



Barbary Lynx. Lynx caracal (Fr.) 



CARACAL CARACAL ALGIRUS (Wagner) 



Felis Caracal . . . Var. algira Wagner, Reisen Regentschaft Algier, vol. 3, 

 p. 76, atlas, pi. 4, 1841. (Vicinity of Algiers (op. tit., p. 62).) 



FIGS.: Buffon, Hist. Nat., vol. 9, pi. 24, 1761; M. Wagner, 1841, atlas, pi. 4; 

 Loche, 1867, pi. 2. 



This Caracal is evidently becoming increasingly scarce as the 

 years roll by. 



General color nearly uniform, between cinnamon-orange and 

 reddish cinnamon; paler about the eyes, on the lips, and on the 

 lower parts; a blackish spot on each side of the mouth; ears ex- 

 ternally black, sometimes mixed with white hairs, terminal tuft 

 black. Head and body, 717 mm.; tail, 284 mm. (Cabrera, 1932, 

 pp. 171-172.) 



The species as a whole is "widely distributed in suitable localities 

 from South Africa to Egypt and Morocco, and from Palestine to 

 India" (Flower, 1929, p. 83). Only the North African subspecies 



