398 Mr. G. S. Miller on 



Lynx pardella^ nom. no v. 



1824. Felis pardina, Temniiiick, MonogT. de Mamm. i, p. 116. Not 

 Lrinx pardina, Oken, 1816. 



%>e.— Adult female (sldn and skull). B.M . no. 4. 12. 12. 2. 

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

 and presented by Abel Chapman, Esq. 



In applying the well-known name Lynx pardina to tlie 

 Spanish lynx the fact has been overlooked that Teinminck 

 took his si)eciiic name from Oken, or at least that he supposed 

 liis animal to be the same as that of 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. 

 Teniminck'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 Gerrit S. Miller. 



The series of fifteen specimens of tlie 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: — 



* " lu der Tiirliei und Barbarei .... rothbraim, Bauch falb, Gurgel 

 weiss, uberall vol! sclnvarzer Streifen obeii, Fleckeii unten, aiif Olneii 

 aolcUe Querstreileu." (Ukeu, LeJirbuch der Zoologie, iii. Th. ii. Abth., 



V- 10-jl.) 



t I'oi a full discussiuu oi tlie status of tlie Spanisli Hare, see de Wiutou, 

 Ann. & Maj:'. Nat. llist. *t'r. 7, i. p. \oi (February 1898). The name 



