CHAP, xii.] DIFFERENT KINDS OF CATS. 425 



The fur of the cheeks is generally long, so much so as to form a 

 pendent thick fringe on each side, but the extent of this develop- 

 ment varies greatly. The pads of the feet are more or less over- 

 grown with hair. 



It inhabits Northern Scandinavia, Russia, Northern Asia, and 

 some of the mountainous districts of Central Europe. One was 

 killed at Wurtemberg as late as 1846, and in 1822 one was killed 

 in France at St. Julien Chapteril, in the department of the Haute 

 Loire. 



This animal is said to attain the length of fifty inches, but I have 

 seen none longer than about forty inches from snout to the root of 

 the tail. 



B. The variety known as F. canadensis, is, in colour, very like 

 F. borcalis, but all the specimens I have seen are smaller, being about 

 thirty inches from snout to tail root, with a tail five inches long. 



C. The variety named F. rufa* is, as its name implies, of a 

 reddish colour ; its fur is shorter and less abundant than that of the 

 variety named F. canadensis. 



Fig. 180. THE NORTHERN LYNX, VARIETY F. maculata. 



D. The variety called F. maculata is a very handsome one, its 

 fur being ornamented with many spots ; but skins exist which 

 present every transitional condition between the long-haired spotted 

 form known as F. maculata and the other American forms. This 

 variety extends across the North American continent from the Rio 

 Grande to Southern California, going at least as far south as 



* Biologia Central! Americana, Mammals, p. 64. 



