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received opinion. It is probable tliat tbe domesUc kind is originally 

 from Asia." Phil, of Zool. vol. ii. p. 185. 



The perusal of M. Temminck's scrutiny of the Feline animal?, 

 has also reminded me of the subjoined passage in Mr. De Capel 

 Brooke's lately-imblished Travels through Sweden, &c. to the 

 North Cape ; which tends to shew, it would appear, that some 

 Species, allied to the Lynxes, occurs in the North of Europe, 

 tviili which naturalists are as yet unacquainted. The extreme 

 brevity of the tail in the skins examined, if correctly stated, ap- 

 pears to be a character hitherto unnoticed in the genus; as well 

 as the resemblance of one> skin to that of the Leopard, but having 

 at the same time tufted ears. 



" The Lynx of the north, the Tiger of the polar countries, is 

 not rare in this part of Norway (the province of Drontheim). In 

 the Norwegian language it is called goupe, and in the north of 

 Sweden it is generally known by the name of warjelue. From the 

 skins of this animal, that were shown to me in different parts of 

 Norway and Lapland, three of which differed very materially in 

 their colour, it seems that there are at least as many species or 

 varieties of the Lynx. Of one of these Mr. Knudtzon had several. 

 The largest measured five feet in length, not including the tail, 

 which did not exceed an inch and a half. The colour of them all 

 was gray, Avith a yellowish tinge, beautifully marked with dark 

 spots, and the ears were tufted. The general price they brought 

 at Drontheim was about five specie dollars, or a pound sterling. 

 This seems to be more peculiar to Norvvay, as I never observed it 

 during my subsequent travels. Of the two others, which I met 

 with in Lapland and Sweden, one that I saw at Uniea measured 

 from the muzzle to the beginning of the tail five feet eleven 

 inches, and the tail was hardly two inches. The appearance of 

 the skin in every respect so much resembled that of the Leopard, 

 thM I should have suspected it to have belonged to this animal, 

 had it not been for its tufted ears, and the length and superior 

 thickness of the fur. The thiid species which I nr^et with in 

 Swedish Lapland, differed so materially from the other two, 

 being of a uniform reddish-brown colour. In length it exceeded 

 five feet." E. W. B. 



