JTHE BOOTED LYNX. 



PLATE XXXL 



The Booted Lynx, Bruce's Travels* vol. v. D. 146 __ Frti* 

 bott, F. caligata, Temminclc, Monographic*, p. i23. 



THE Booted Lynx of Bruce has been confounded 

 by many with the Felis chaus of Gueldenstad, fi- 

 gured upon our next Plate ; but they are very dif- 

 ferent animals, and that of Bruce will stand under 

 the designation applied to it by M. Temminck. 



The Booted Lynx is sometimes 3 feet 3 inches 

 in length, of which the tail will measure about 15 

 inches. The more general or average length is from 

 two feet and a half to three feet. The fur of the 

 adult male is of a bluish-grey tint, sometimes in- 

 distinctly clouded with transverse bands of blackish. 

 The under parts are reddish. The ears are very 

 long, tipped with a pencil of blackish hair ; the backs 

 are of a bright reddish brown, the inside whire. 

 On the heel, and stretching up the back of the leg, 

 until nearly the first joint, is a large patch of deep 

 black ; whence its describers have taken its trivial 

 name. This boeted marking is common to many of 



