CHAP. 



Guanajuato,* and probably extending to near the city of Mexico. 

 It is therefore an interesting kind, as being the most southern form of 

 Lynx as yet known to exist. The F. maculata figured measures thirty - 

 five inches from snout to tail root, and the tail is six inches long. 



(46.) THE PARDINE LYNX (F.pardina). 



This is the South European lynx. The colour is rufous above, 

 white beneath, with numerous rounded black spots over the body, 

 the limbs, and the tail. 



It presents no noticeable difference as to size from F. lyncus.^ 



At first I was disposed to regard this form as a mere variety of 

 the northern lynx (the species thus becoming spotted in southern 

 latitudes in the old world, just as it becomes spotted in the 

 warmer regions of the new world), but an examination of the skulls 

 inclines me to regard F. pardina as a really distinct species. "When 

 the skull is seen in profile it differs from the skulls of the varieties 

 F. borcalis, F. canadensis, F. ritfa, and F. maculata) in that it appears 

 much more raised and convex between the orbits, while the skulls 

 of the four just-named varieties are relatively flat. The nasals of 

 F. pardina extend backwards beyond the nasal processes of the 

 maxilla3. 



This species is found in Turkey, Greece, Sicily, Sardinia, and 

 Spain. In Andalusia it is very often called Gato serval, an inter- 

 esting indication of the African origin of part of the population of 

 that Province. 



(47.) THE THIBET LYNX (F. i 



This form is only ranked as a species provisionally and with 

 much doubt. There is in the British Museum the mounted skin of 

 a large lynx, which is uniformly of a very pale isabella colour. 



Length of head and body, forty-one inches. 



Length of tail, seven inches. 



Though so markedly different in colour it may be but a pale 

 variety of F. lyncus. 



(48.) THE CARACAL (Felis Caracal). \\ 



The caracal is a well-known kind. It is of a slender build, with long 

 limbs and with a tail longer than in the other lynxes, reaching down 

 to the animal's heels. The ears are three inches long. 



* Biologia, L c., p. 65. 



*h There is a specimen in the British 

 Museum which measures forty-one inches 

 from snout to tail-root, with a tail seven 

 inches long, and which is covered with 

 black spots. It is labelled Lyncus lupu- 

 linus, and has been described by Dr. 

 Gray (Pro. Zool. Soc., 1867, p. 276) as a 

 new species. It was brought from the 

 museum of the Zoological Society, and is 

 represented as having come from Norway. 

 But this representation was probably 



erroneous. 



J This is the F. isalellina of Blythc. 

 Gray, Pro. Zool. Soc., 1867, p. 276. 



Dr. Scully has very kindly shown 

 me the skins obtained by him in Central 

 Asia, one of which at least is intermediate 

 in coloration between F. lyncus and F. 

 isalellina. 



|| Jerdon's Mammals of British India, 

 p. 113. See also Elliot's Monograph 

 and De Blainville's Osteographie, plate 

 10. 



