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(we put both representations under fasciatus) . With regard to the 

 latter case there is in our belief continuous gradation up the Pacific 

 coast from the "style" of wildcat in the vicinity of San Diego to the 

 quite differently appearing animal in the Ancinity of Puget Sound. 



Fig. A. — Map showing approximate ranges of each of the four subspecies of 

 Lynx ruffus in California. 



But the intergradation is evenly progressive, not step-like. (For a 

 sound discussion of this same kind of situation as illustrated in the 

 avian genus Chamaea, see Osgood, 1901, p. 50.) But with the limited 

 materials as yet available for study, and in view of the elusiveness 



