. TOBIN ALLEY 
Bay Lynx. Hit. Quad, N° 171. 
AT. With yellow irides: ears like the former: color of the 
head, body, and outfide of the legs and thighs, a bright bay, 
obf{curely marked with dufky fpots: the forehead marked with black 
ftripes from the head to the nofe: cheeks white, varied with three 
or four incurvated lines of black: the upper and under lip, belly, 
and infides of the legs and thighs, white: the infide of the upper 
part of the fore legs croffed with two black bars: the tail fhort; the 
upper part marked with dufky bars, and near the end with one of 
black ; the under fide white. In fize, about twice that of a common 
. Cat; the fur fhorter and fmoother than that of the former. 
This fpecies is found in the internal parts of the province of New 
York. 1 {aw one living a few years ago in London. The black bars 
on the legs and tail are fpecific marks. 
Hift. Quad. N° 168. 
Cat-a-mountain? Law/oa, 118. Du Pratz, ii. 64. 
AT. With upright pointed ears, marked with two brown bars: 
head and upper part of the body of a reddifh brown, with long 
narrow ftripes of black: the fides and legs with fmall round fpots: chin 
and throat of a clear white: belly of a dull white: tail eight inches 
long, barred with black. Length from nofe to tail two feet and a half. 
Inhabits North America. 1s faid to be a gentle animal, and to 
grow very fat. Defcribed originally in the Memoires de l’ Academie ; 
fince which an account of another, taken in Carolina, was communi- 
cated by the late Mr. Collinfon to the Count de Buffon*. The only 
difference is in fize; for the laft was only nineteen inches long: the 
tail four; but the fame charatteriftic ftripes, fpots, and bars, on the 
tail, were fimilar in both. 
* Supplem. iii, 237. 
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