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NEW-YORK FAUNA. 
GENUS LYNCUS. Gray. 
Ears triangular, more or less tufted. Tail shorter than the head 
THE NORTHERN LYNX 
Lyncus borealis. 
PLATE X. FIG. 2. 
Lynx Cat. Penn. Arct. Zool. Vol. 1, p. 50. 
Lynx de Canada. Cuv. Oss. Foss. Ed. altera. Vol. 4, p. 443. 
Felis borealis. Temminck, Monographic, p. 109. 
F. canadensis. Harlan, Fauna, p. 98. 
The Northern Lynx. Godman, Am. Nat. Hist. Vol. 1, p. 302, figure. 
Canada Lynx. Richardson, F. B. A. Vol. 1, p. 101. 
F. canadensis. Emmons, Mass. Report, 1838, p. 27; 1840, p. 32. 
Characteristics. Grey, with darker spots. Ears acute, margined with rufous and black. 
Tail shorter than the head. Soles hairy. Generally larger than the suc¬ 
ceeding. 
Description, [from a fine adult male in the Collection of Prof. Emmons.) Body raised 
high on its legs. Head large and rounded. Ears triangular, 2'0 high, 3‘5 apart, with long 
black cylindrical tufts 2 • 3 high. Eyes large, 1 • 5 apart. Whiskers stiff, horizontal, arranged 
in two oblique series, some of the longest 3'5, and white; the posterior series brown horn- 
color. A broad ruff commences behind or rather beneath the ears, and surrounds the neck, 
except behind the ears, where there is comparatively a free interval; on the sides of the head 
it is short, but beneath it is from 3'5 to 4’0 long. (In the female, this ruff is much shorter, 
and not particolored.) The fur is of two kinds ; a long fine wool, intermixed with longer 
subrigid hairs. On the line of the back, the fur is 1 ’5 long ; on the belly it is loose and pen¬ 
dulous, and 4‘5 long. Base of the feet so densely furred as to conceal entirely the soles and 
claws, which latter are white, long, curved, acute, and channelled beneath. 
Color. The general color is grey, intermixed with rufous and black. Margin of the lips, 
upper margin of the nose and tip of the chin, bright rufous. Nose black, and slightly fur¬ 
rowed in the centre. Front of the head grey. Eyes yellowish in the living state. Ears 
white in front, margined with rufous, and behind this again bordered with black; posterior 
part of the ear, light ash; ear tufts black. Ruff white in front, and behind this it is longer 
and darker, approaching to black beneath; on the sides of the head it is shorter, with a 
greater admixture of rufous. On the back, the fur varies from reddish brown to blackish 
brown at the base ; then dark brown or black, with hoary tips. Sides light fulvous at base, 
tipped with hoary. Anterior part of fore and hind legs, light fulvous. On the belly, the long 
loose hairs are soiled white, with a slight admixture of light fulvous at the base, and here and 
there scattered bunches of fulvous hairs. Tail rufous above for more than two-thirds of its 
length, tipped broadly with black; beneath rufous, mixed with lighter colored hairs. 
