398 Mr. G. S. Miller on 



Lynx pardella^ nom. iiov. 



1824. Felis pardina^ Temminck, Monogr. de Mamm. i. p. 116. Not 

 Lynx pardina, Okeu, 1816. 



Tyjje.—MvM female (skin and skull). B.M. no. 4. 12. 12. 2. 

 Goto Donana, near Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. GoUected 

 and presented by Abel Chapman, Esq. 



In applying the well-known name Lynx pardina to the 

 Spanish lynx the fact has been overlooked that Temminck 

 took his specific name from Oken, or at least that he supposed 

 his animal to be the same as that o£ the earlier author. 

 Oken^s Lynx 'pardina was a striped cat from " Turkey and 

 Barbary " *, so that, whatever the true identity of the species, 

 it cannot have been the spotted lynx of Spain. 



The material in the British Museum shows that two colour- 

 patterns occur among Spanish lynxes, in one of which, 

 apparently the more usual, the spots on the back and sides 

 are small, mostly about 10 mm. or less in diameter, the rows 

 indistinct, but containing evidently more than 25 spots 

 between shoulder and base of tail ; while in the other the 

 spots are larger and more distinct, many of them 20 mm. in 

 diameter, the rows containing only about a dozen spots 

 between shoulder and base of tail. From the skins at hand 

 it is impossible to determine the status of these two forms, 

 though the similarity of their skulls indicates that they are 

 merely colour-phases of a single species. To avoid any 

 possible ambiguity I have designated a type specimen for 

 this new name, and have selected for this purpose a skin 

 showing the better-known, small-spotted type of coloration. 

 Temminck's animal came from the neighbourhood of Lisbon, 

 Portugal, but to which of the two phases it belonged the 

 description gives no clue. 



LI. — Two new Forms of the Spanish Hare. 

 By Geerit S. Millek. 



The series of fifteen specimens of the Spanish Hare in the 

 British Museum shows that this strikingly characterized 

 species f is represented by three readily distinguishable forms, 

 which may be briefly defined as follows: — 



* " In der Tiirkei irnd Barbarei .... rothbraun, Baucb falb, Gurgel 

 weiss, iiberall voU scbwarzer Streifen oben, Fleckeu uiiten, auf Oliren 

 solche Querstreifen." (Oken, Lebrbuch der Zoologie, iii. Th. ii. Abth., 

 p. 1051.) 



j For a full discussion of the status of the Spanish Hare, see de Wintou, 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. set. 7, i. p. 153 (February 1898). The u.ame 



