458 FELIS. 
rufous band on chest and abdomen slightly suffused with buff, and 
the entire under parts blotched with black; tail above like back, with 
black apical half-ring and several paler half-rings of blackish brown; 
middle of tail below white, and white tip; ear black, with whitish 
gray median patch. 
Measurements. Total length, 805; tail vertebre, 117; hind foot, 
160; ear from notch, 55. Skull: total length, 115; Hensel, 94; palatal 
length, 41; zygomatic breadth, 78; interorbital constriction, 22; 
breadth across postorbital processes, 52; mastoid breadth, 52.3; 
breadth between outer corners of upper carnassials, 45.3; length of 
upper carnassials, 14.6. 
rufa texensis (Felis), Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1895, p. 188. 
Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., Suppl., 1901, p. 506 (note). 
ruja maculata Vig. & Horsf., Zool. Journ., Iv, 1829, p. 381. (nec 
Kerr.) Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., rgor, p. 296, as maculata. 
WiLp Cat. Gato montes in Mexico for all Lynxes. 
Type locality. Mexico. 
Geogr. Distr. Mexican boundary line into Texas and California. 
Genl. Char. Fur coarse; distinct spots on back and sides. 
Color. Above chestnut brown; darkest on back, with rather 
indistinct spots, also on outer side of legs; under parts white, with 
large black spots; inside of thighs banded with black and chestnut; 
tail beneath white, above tip is black. 
Measurements. Total length, about goo; tail vertebra, 126. 
rufa eremica (Lynx), Mearns, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xx, 1897, p. 457- 
Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1go1, p. 298. 
DESERT Lynx. 
Type locality. New River, near Laguna Station, Colorado Desert, 
San Diego County, California. 
Geogr. Distr. Eastern and Western Desert Tracts on the Mexican 
Line; probably in States of Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico. 
Color. Above grizzled pale yellowish brown, spotted and striped 
with brown and black; legs ochraceous buff, mixed with grayish; 
under parts white, and with inner side of limbs spotted or banded with 
black; flanks and outer side of limbs spotted with yellowish brown; tail 
reddish brown above, white below, subterminal spot of black, rest 
barred with black; ears as usual. 
Measurements. Total length, 925; tail vertebra, 170; hind 
foot, 185. 
rufa californica (Lynx), Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xx, 1897, 
p. 458. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1go1, p. 298. 
