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LYNX CANADENSI S.— Geoffroy. 



Canada Lynx. 

 PLATE XVI.— Male, i Natural size. 



L. magnitudine L. rufum superans ; auribus triangularibus, apice pilis 

 crassis nigris erectis barbatis ; cauda capite breviore, plantis villosis ; 

 supra cinereus, maculis obscuris nebulosus, subtus dilutior. 



CHARACTERS. 



Larger than F. rufus ; ears, triangular, tipt with an upright slender tuft 

 of coarse black hairs ; tail, shorter than the head ; soles, hairy ; general co- 

 lour, gray above, a little clouded with irregular darker spots, lighter 

 beneath. 



- SYNONTMES. 



LouF-CERViER, (anaris qua,) Sagard Theodat, Canada, 744, An. 1636. 



" " or Ltnx, Dobb's Hudson's Bay, p. 41, An. 1744. 

 Ltnx, Pennant, Arc. Zool., toI. i., p. 50. 



" or Wild Cat, Hearne's Journey, p. 366. 

 Canadian Lxnx, Buff., vol. v., suppl. p. 216, pi. 125. 



" " Mackenzie's Journey, p. 106. 

 Felis Canadensis, Geoffroy, An. du Mus. 



" Canadensis, Sabine, Franklin's Journey, p. 659. 



" Canadensis, Desm. Mam., p. 225. 

 Northern Ltnx, Godman, Nat. Hist., vol. i., p. 302. 

 Felis Borealis, Temminck, Monographie, t. i., p. 109. 



" Canadensis, Rich., F. B. A. p. 101. 



" " Reichenbach, Regnum Animale, sp. 551, p. 46, pi. 551, Lipsite, 1836. 



LyNcns Borealis, Dekay, Nat. Hist. N. Y., p. 50, pi. 10, fig. 2. 



DESCRIPTION. 



This species has a rounder, broader, and proportionably shorter head 

 than (L. rufus,) the Bay Lynx ; nose, obtuse ; eyes, large ; teeth, very 

 strong ; whiskers, stiff, horizontal, arranged in three oblique series ; ears, 

 acute, thickly clothed with hair on both surfaces, tipped by a long and 

 slender tuft of coarse hairs ; beneath the ears commences a broad ruff 



