LYNX 475 



LYNX PARDELIUS Miller. 



1827. Felis purdina Temminck, Monogr. de Mamm., i, p. 116 (Near 



Lisbon, Portugal). Not Lynx pardina Oken, 1816. 

 1907. Lynx pwrdella Miller, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th ser., xx, p. 398, 



November, 1907 (Coto Donana, Huelva, Spain). Type in British 



Museum. 

 1910. Lynx (Eucervaria) pardella Trouessart, Paune Mamm. d'Europe, 



p. 105. 



Type locality. — Coto Donana, Huelva, Spain. 



Geographical distribution. — Iberian Peninsula. 



Diagnosis. — Length of lower cheek-teeth together about 

 30 mm. ; skull relatively short and deep, the interorbital 

 convexity conspicuous and abrupt ; back and sides always 

 densely spotted ; cheeks noticeably whiskered. 



External characters. — Form less robust than in Lynx lynx, 

 but not differing in essential details. Underfur not densely 

 woolly. Elongated hairs on sides of head below ears forming 

 conspicuous pointed tufts 50 to 80 mm. in length, separated from 

 each other along median line by a narrow area of ordinary fur. 



Colour. — Underfur pale buff at base, the hairs becoming pale, 

 dull tawny on distal half. Longer hairs buffy at base, black at 

 tip, each with a whitish sub-terminal annulation about 5 mm. 

 long. Ground colour above a fine mixture of the whitish and 

 dull tawny, very uniform throughout body, neck, outer surface 

 of fore leg and entire hind leg. On face it becomes greyish, and 

 on feet there is usually a wash of cream-buff. In the more usual 

 type of coloration the entire back and sides are closely sprinkled 

 with rounded black spots, mostly about 10 mm. or less in 

 diameter, the spots tending to become confluent so as to suggest 

 two longitudinal dorsal stripes, and also though less clearly 

 several transverse stripes on sides and shoulders. Although it is 

 impossible to count the spots along back, there are evidently more 

 than twenty-five between base of tail and most distinctly indicated 

 transverse stripe on shoulder. On legs the spots become slightly 

 larger, and on neck smaller and less distinct. In a less usual 

 colour phase the spots are much larger and less numerous, many 

 of those on back 20 mm. in diameter, the number between tail 

 and most distinct shoulder stripe only about a dozen. Under- 

 parts creamy- white, heavily blotched with black on belly ; throat 

 more buffy, its spots very small ; interramial space nearly white. 

 A V-shaped black mark, open in front, extends from hinder 

 portion of interramial space to ends of whiskers. Inner surface of 

 fore legs like chest ; a heavy black band at elbow and a faint one 

 at wrist and at middle of upper arm. Whiskers mixed black 

 and white. Ear and its long pencil black, the conch buffy along 

 the anterior rim and at base, the posterior rim greyish at base, 

 then with a black line 5 mm. wide parallel to edge. A broad, 

 sub-triangular grey area on back of ear. Inner surface clothed 



