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outer corner; the upper lip is spotted, and the under one margined, 

 with black; and the facial markings resemble those of the other 

 streaked species of Felis : irides greenish-hazel. The young resemble 

 the adults. 



This Lynx is the commonest species of the forests of Scandinavia, 

 and the only one which is occasionally met with in the southern parts 

 of that country during severe winter weather. It is there termed 

 Warg-lo (or " Wolf Lynx") ; that is, in Sweden, being the Warg-goupe 

 of Norway. In former times it appears to have been very generally 

 diffused over Central Europe, and it is still sparingly found in the 

 wilder mountain forests of Germany, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland, 

 (where M. Schinz mentions that it is extremely rare), and according 

 to M. Temminck in Italy as far as Naples, and very accidentally 

 France. Baron Cuvier notices its occurrence on the Pyrenees. In 

 Russia it is more numerous; and M. Guldenstadt states that it is 

 common upon the Caucasus,* whence it probably spreads eastward 

 and northward into Central Asia. An interesting notice of this animal 

 occurs in Major Lloyd's ' Field Sports of the North of Europe' (II. 139, 

 et seq). This author does not appear to have been acquainted with 

 more than this one species, observed both in summer and winter dress, 

 which he rightly refers to the same animal ; and concerning it, he men- 

 tions that " they are to be found in some abundance in all the more 

 deeply wooded districts of Scandinavia. They are usually to be met 

 with singly, or at most in pairs, unless it be, perhaps, that the mother is 

 followed by her cubs. They generally confine themselves to the 

 wildest recesses of the forests, and are rarely to be seen in the vicinity 

 of inhabited places. 



"The period of gestation with these animals is from eight to nine 

 weeks, and the female brings forth about the beginning of May : this is 

 either in the cavity of a rock, or in other sheltered situations. It is 

 said that the mother [like the rest of the genus] gives her whelps 

 living animals, the better to initiate them in the art of killing their 

 victims. 



* 1 follow Temminck in referring Guldenstadt's F. Lynx to this species, although 

 the evidence is not very conclusive. Guldenstadt defines it as " capite et corpore 

 albido rufo maculato, cauda obsolete annulata, apice nigro;" which applies almost as 

 well to F. cervaria. It is probable, however, that the present species is intended. 



