1842.] A Monograph of the Species of Lynx. 743 



brought to Moscow. On the Caucasus, it seems to be rare :* and 

 it doubtless extends northward along the forests of the Ural, being 

 likewise found, though as a rarity, in Scandinavia, where it is designa- 

 ted Kat-lo (or Cat Lynx). I suspect it to be the Tibetan species of 

 Mr. Hodgson.f Pontoppidan, in his ' Natural History of Norway,* 

 by some inadvertence, asserts that this Kat-goupe " is scarcely half the 

 size of the next, or Warg-goupe" Of its particular habits I have met 

 with no information. 



The Red Lynx (F. Lynx, Temminck, but not of Linnaeus and 

 Nilsson; F. virgata, Nilsson). This is the ordinary European species, 

 which alone is found in the central parts, though now very sparingly, 

 extending from Scandinavia to Naples, and to the Pyrenees, whence 

 it may be suspected to have wandered into Spain, though it is 

 not known to have occurred in that country. It is a long limb- 

 ed animal, appearing so more particularly in summer, when its 

 coat is short ; the pupils of its eyes close vertically ; and the facial 

 ruff is moderately full, with the mouchetures appearing conspicuously 

 below it. A fine living male stood nearly two feet high at the croup, 

 with a length of about three feet to the tail, the latter about six inches 

 more ; ears fully three inches, with tufts an inch and a half, and the 

 mouchetures an inch and three quarters. The fur is short in summer, 

 but in winter is much longer, with pure white tips almost concealing 

 the bright rufous under-colour : the latter is darker along the middle 

 of the back, paler on the sides, and the under-parts and inside of 

 the limbs are white ; the body-markings are obscure, and in some 

 individuals not a little resemble, when sufficiently brought out, those 

 of the Ocelot (F. pardalisj ; forming dusky spots on the limbs only, 

 and faint ocellated streaks descending obliquely backwards on the sides, 

 the inferior border of which ocellations is much more strongly marked 

 (as in various other species), and in some specimens almost solely 

 discernible. The tail is rufous above, whitish underneath, and rather 

 largely tipped with black : the borders of the eyes are white, with a 

 black line proceeding obliquely backward and downward from their 



* It is, however, the only species that was noticed on the Caucasus hy M. Menetries, 

 who obtained the spoils of one at Bakan, which he was positively assured was killed 

 in that country. 



t See Note to p. 18. 



