748 A Monograph of the Species of Lynx. [No. 128. 



skins (of an adult and young) at Seville, where they cost him thirty 

 reals, about six shillings and three pence. " In Andalusia, whence the 

 specimens came, the animal is called Gato Clavo (Clavo meaning the 

 pupil of the eye), illustrative of the spotted character of the fur. Some 

 peasants in Andalusia make short jackets of the skins. The animal 

 inhabits the Sierra Morena."* M. Temminck suspected that it might 

 also be found in Sardinia, and perhaps Sicily ; while the Lynx of 

 Italy and Naples is known to be the Red one. He further conjectured 

 that it may inhabit Turkey and the Levantine countries. No notice 

 of it occurs, however, in Sr. Cetti's work on the quadrupeds of Sardinia, 

 where the only wild Feline appears to be a feral race of the Domestic Cat, 

 with generally black fur, as noticed by Azuni, and which is numerous 

 in all the wooded districts of that island. The specimen here des- 

 cribed is a fully adult male, received when young by the Zoological 

 Society from some part of Spain, and which lived till it attained complete 

 maturity in their establishment. The anterior false molar proved to be 

 wanting in its upper jaw, as in all the allied species here described. 



The Arctic Lynx (F. Borealis, Temminck, but not of Thunberg ; 

 F. Lynx, Linnaeus and Nilsson; F. Canadensis, Geoffroy). This fourth 

 European Lynx appears to be common to the wooded districts of 

 the extreme north of both continents. It is readily distinguished 

 by the indistinctness of its markings generally, including those of 

 the limbs, though on the belly there are spots which, in some indi- 

 viduals, are tolerably distinct; and particularly by the shagginess of 

 its paws, the fur covering which is remarkably long and dense, re- 

 calling to mind the feet of some of the Arctic birds, as the great Snowy 

 Owl and certain Ptarmigan. This animal bears even a further re- 

 semblance to the Owls, in the manner in which the hair of its face meets 

 to form a mesial ridge between the eyes, which is very strongly 

 marked; whereas in other Cats, although some trace of this may 

 generally be found, it certainly requires to be looked for, to be ob- 

 served. Its length is about two feet and three-quarters from nose to 

 base of tail, the tail with hair only four inches more ; height of the back 



* Proc. Zool. Soc, J 838, p. 113. From the same mountain range, a Mungoose 

 (Herpestes Widdringtonii, Gray ), allied to the Egyptian H. Ichneumon, has recent- 

 ly been described by Mr. Gray, in the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History' for 

 March 1842, p. 50, certainly a very unexpected addition to the Mammalia of Europe. 



