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ingly altogether untameable ; so likewise are a couple of kittens of F. 

 Chaus which are now more than half grown, and which I have possess- 

 ed from the time they could scarcely crawl, and have uniformly tried 

 to subdue their savage disposition, but wholly without success. They 

 will allow me to touch them, but never suddenly or abruptly, nor do 

 they ever fail to greet me with a spiteful hiss, and when 1 venture to 

 smooth their fur, they throw back their ears] as if frightened, and re- 

 sume their growling and spitting the moment I take my hand off; and 

 so it has been with them from the very first, when they could not have 

 had their eyes open many days. Lieut. Tickell tells me, that he also 

 has found the Chaus thus utterly untameable. 



The Pardine Lynx (F. Pardina, Oken and Temminck). If the pre- 

 ceding species does not extend its range into the Spanish peninsula, 

 its place is there supplied by another, remarkable for the beauty of its 

 spotting, and the length of its pendent mouchetures, which is not 

 known to occur out of that country. The Pardine Lynx is inferior in 

 size to the ordinary Red species, but measures upwards of two feet and 

 a half to the tail, the latter six inches more ; and height of the back 

 about a foot and a half, or rather more. The ears are two inches 

 and a half long, or with their tufts three inches and three-quarters ; 

 and mouchetures two inches and a quarter. The fur is short and soft, 

 three-quarters of an inch long upon the back, and of a vinous-ful- 

 vous colour, paler on the under-parts, and very handsomely spotted 

 with black ; the markings inclining to form linked ocellations on the 

 sides, which are of a deeper colour within than the general ground- 

 tint, as usual in all ocellated markings. On the limbs are round spots, 

 which become smaller and tend to group into ocellations above them. 

 The tip of the lower and margin of the upper lip are black, above 

 which the latter is spotted ; and the back of the ear is grey in the 

 centre, broadly surrounded with black ; the margins of the eyes being 

 white as usual. The mouchetures, also, are conspicuously white, finely 

 set off by the black line near their outside ; but there is no other white 

 except on the throat. I doubt whether the fur is ever much tipped with 

 whitish in winter, though there is probably some appearance of it. 

 The ground colour of the young is paler, with the spots less intense. 



To the continental furriers, this species is known, according to 

 M. Temminck, as the Lynx of Portugal. Col. Sykes obtained two 



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