FELIS. 233 



Distrihuiion — Northern Europe, Scandanavia, Russia, and 

 Siberia, North America, as far south as Pennsylvania and Cali- 

 fornia. 



a. Skin Hudson's Bay British Museum [Ex.] 



b. Skin . Alumette Isle, Ottawa J. H. Gamier [Ex.] 



c. Skull Upton, Maine, U.S.A. W. Theobald, 1869. 



d. Skull Urabagog Lake, Maine, W. Theobald, 1869. 



U.S.A. 



Felis rufa. 



Felis rufa, Guldenstadi Nov. Comm. Acad. Petrop., xx, p. 499 (1776) > 



Blyth Cat. no. 190, p. 65 ; Elliot Monog. Felidae no. 39. 

 Felis carolinensis, Desmarest Mamm , p. 234 (1820). 

 Lynx floridanus '^ 

 Lynx montanus / 



Lynx rufus > Rafinesque Amer. Month. Mag., ii, p. 46 (1817)*. 



Lynx aureus v 



Lynx faciatus J 



Felis maculata, Vigors and Horsfield Zool. Journ., iv, p. 381, pi. xiii (1829). 



Distribution — North America to Mexico. 



a. Skin Lake Amhee, Ontario J. H. Garnier [Ex.] 



i. Skin juv. Blue Ridge, Ontario J. H. Garnier [Ex.] 



c. Skull North Carolina Rev. F. Fitzgerald, A.S.B. 



Felis domestica. 



Felis domestica, Gmelin Syst. Nat., i, p. 80 (1788) ; Elliot Monog, Felidae 



no. 41 ; Thomas Linn. Trans. (2), v, p. 57, 

 ¥e\\s C3.iVLS,Erxleben Syst. Reg. Anim., p. 518 (1777); Blyth J. A. S. B., 



XXV, p. 442; id. Cat. no. 183, p. 62; Severteoff Ann. Mag. N. H. {/^), 



xviii, p. so; Blanford Yarkand Mamm., p. 17. 

 FeWs tOTt\na.ta, F. Cuvier Hist. Nat. Mamm., livr. liv, with plate, (1826); 



Sykes P. Z. S., 1831, p. 102 ; Horsfield Cat. E. I. Mus., p. 49 ; Thomas P. 



Z. S,, 1886, p. S3 ; Blanford Mammals, p. 85. 

 Felis maniculata, Jenyns Brit. Vert. Anim., p. IS (1835). 

 Felis megalotis, Miiller Over de Zoogdieren in Tern. Verhandl . d <iA 



(1839-44). ^' ^^ 



Felis huttoni, 5/y;A 5^. ^. 5. B., xv, p. 169 (1846); id. J. A. S. B., xvii, 



p. 247. 



The Domestic Cat of India differs considerably from the English 

 domestic cat ; Blyth distinguishes two races of Indian domestic 

 cats — (i) the spotted type in which the spots tend to form them- 

 selves into streaks, especially on the anterior parts of the body ; 

 the tail of this form is slender and of uniform thickness, with a 

 series of black rings ; this form is frequently found in a feral state 

 and it is probable that it was from an animal of this kind that 

 Felis torquataof F. Cuvier was originally described ; (2) the other 

 form_ was called by Blyth the Chaus-coloured cat; it is of 

 a uniform fulvous colour with barred legs and a ringed tail, 

 resembling F. chaus ; in its proportions, however, it differs from' 



