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vMAMMALIA. 



Felis caracal, 



Felis caracal, Guldenstadt Nov. Comm.. Acad. Peirop,, xx, p. 500, (1766); 

 Blyth Cat. no. 187, p. 64 ; id. P. Z. S., 1863, p. 186 ; Tristram P. Z. S., 

 1866, p. 92; Jerion Mamm., p. 113; McMaster Notes on yerdon, 

 p. 31 ; Stoliczka J. A. S. B., xli, p. 227 ; Blanford Persia, p. 37 ; 

 Atkinson N. W. P. Gazett., xi, p. 18; Alston P. Z. S., 1877, p. 273; 

 Elliot Monog. Felidae no. 40 ; Murray Zool, Sind, p. 30 ; Sterndale 

 Mamm. Ind. p. 198; Blanford Mammals, p. 88; Radde Zool. J. B., 

 iv, p. 1016. 



Lynx caracal, Fischer Znognosie, p. 200 (1814)*. 



Caracal melanotis. Gray List Mamm, B. M., p. 46 (1843) ; id. Cat, Cam, 

 Mamm., p. 38. 



Siahgosh, Persian and Hind. 



Distribution. — Africa generally, Palestine (Tristram), Arabia, 

 Smyrna and Taurus (Danford) ; Mesopotamia, Persia (Blanford), 

 and Transcaspia. In India proper is generally distributed but 

 found more abundantly in the west, t. e., Sind (Murray), Cutch 

 (Stoliczka), Dehra Dun? (Atkinson), and Nepal terai (Hodgson). 



The anterior upper premolar present in the skull of specimen 

 " a" is a rather uncom-mon variation. 



a. Skin, skelet. 



b. Skin, skull 

 Skin, skelet. 

 Skin, skull 



d. 



e. Skin, skull 



/. Stuffed 



g. Skeleton 



h. Skeleton 



/. Skeleton 



juv. i' 



W. Rutled^e. 

 Zoological Gardens. 

 W. Rutledg-e. 

 Zoological Gardens, 

 W. Rutledge. 

 W. Rutledge, 1870. 

 No history. 

 Babu H. H. Roy. 

 W. Rutledge. 



Felis concolor. 



Felis concolor, Linnaus Mantissa, p. 522 (1771)*; Elliot Monog, Felidae 



no. 2. 

 Felis puma, Molina Sagg. Star, Nat. Chili, p. 245 (1817)*. 

 Felis eougUar, Lesson Man. Mamm., 190 (1827). 

 Felis unicolor. Lesion Man. Mamm., p. igo (1827). 

 Leopardus concolor, Gray List Mamm. B. M., p. 41 (1843). 



The Puma, 



Distribution.— 'i^oxth. and South America from 45" N. lat to 



the Straits of Magellan. 



a. Skin, skull ? 



b. Skin Sdulh A- 



c. Skin, skull Mexico 

 d. Skill! 



.cfica 



W. Rutledge, :883, 

 W. Jamrach [P,] 

 British Mus. [Ex.] 

 E. Blyth, :86s. 



