1924] Orinnell-Dixon: The Genus Lynx in California 347 



Specimens, skins-with-skuUs or skulls only, are in the Museum of 

 Vertebrate Zoology from California as follows: Siskiyou County 

 Mount Shasta (at 6500 feet), 1. Shasta County: Tower House, 1 

 McCloud River (near Baird), 2. Trinity County: Weaverville, 1 

 Helena, 3, Tehama County : South YoUa Bolly Mountain, 1. Mendo- 

 cino County: Gualala, 1. Sonoma County: near Cazadero, 2. Marin 

 County : Inverness, 1 ; exact locality not specified, 2. Alameda 

 County : Berkeley 1. Santa Clara County : exact locality not specified, 

 4. Placer County: Goldrun, 1. Tuolumne County: Hetch Hetchy 

 Valley, 3 ; Lake Eleanor, 1. Mariposa County : Yosemite Valley and 

 vicinity, 23 ; El Portal, 3. Mono County : foot of Leevining Creek 

 Grade, 1 (immature, not positively determinable as to subspecies). 

 Madera County : Raymond, 1. Merced County : near Los Banos, 1. 

 San Luis Obispo County: near Piedras Blancas, 1. Kern County: 

 Piute Mountains, 1. Ventura County : Mount Pinos, 1 ; Ventura, 2. 

 Los Angeles County : near Pasadena, 2 ; Sierra Madre, 1. Riverside 

 County : Riverside, 1 ; San Jacinto Mountains, 2 ; Santa Rosa Moun- 

 tains, 1. San Diego County : near Foster, 1 ; Pine Mountain, 1 ; 

 Witch Creek, 1 ; Campo, 1. Total, 70 specimens. 



Comments. — Through the courtesy of the Director of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, we have had the privilege of 

 studying the type specimen of Lynx (Cervaria) fasciatus ocule'm 

 Bangs (1899, pp. 23-24), in comparison with our other materials in 

 the genus. It is a young male, skin (stuffed out) and skull; no. 8633, 

 coll. E. A. and 0. Bangs ; collected by C. A. Allen, December 11, 1898, 

 at Nicasio, Marin County. It accords accurately with Mr. Bangs' 

 description of externals and, as he says, is quite different in coloration 

 from the much darker, more reddish. Lynx fasciatus fasciatus, of the 

 coast district of British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon, and, less 

 typically, of the extreme northwestern corner of California. But the 

 type of ocuhus, like other specimens at hand from the San Francisco 

 Bay region north at lea.st through Sonoma County, proves indis- 

 tinguishable in any respect from selected examples of Lynx rufus 

 californicus Mearns (1897, p. 458), described from San Diego. 

 Averages in large series might be expected to show some tendencies 

 in the Bay region toward fasciatus; but so far as our present materials 

 go, and these are just about conclusive, we have no alternative other 

 than to include them both under one race name. AVe are compelled, 

 therefore, to regard the name oculeus as a synonym of californicus, 

 the latter being by over two years the older. 



The skull of the type of ocideus shows the animal to have been a 

 young-of-the-year, probably close to eight months old. Its immaturity 

 accounts for some of the characters supposed by Bangs to distinguish 

 a Avestern "group" of wildcats. Some measurements of this type 



