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thing else is noticed by him as Lynx Floridanus. I have not been able to 

 consult M. Raffinesque's paper on these animals, which was published 

 in the ' American Monthly Magazine' for 1817, p. 46 ; and only know 

 it from the references of Dr. Harlan and others. Should there really be 

 any additional species to those admitted here, no doubt M. Audubon's 

 forthcoming work on the Mammals of North America will include them ; 

 but I repeat the expression of my strong suspicion, that none of the 

 foregoing indications will ever be confirmed. 



With respect to the Lynxes of Scandivania, a notice occurs in 

 Sir Arthur de Capel Broke's 'Travels in Sweden/ &c. (pp. 147 et 

 seq.), which in parts is somewhat obscure. " The forests in the pro- 

 vince of Drontheim," it is remarked, " abound with different species 

 of wild animals, as Bears, Wolves, Lynxes, Foxes, Martens, Cats,* &c. 

 The Lynx of the north is not rare in this part of Norway. In 

 the Norwegian language it is called Goupe, and in the north of Swe- 

 den it is generally termed Wargilue. From the skins of this animal 

 that were shewn to me in different parts of Norway and Lapland, 

 three of which differed very materially in colour, it seems that 

 there are, at least, as many species or varieties. Of one of these 

 M. Knudtzon had several. The largest measured five feet in length, 

 not including the tail, which did not exceed an inch and a half. The 

 colour of them all was grey, with a yellowish tinge, beautifully marked 

 with dark spots, and the ears were tufted. The general price they 

 brought at Drontheim was about five specie dollars, or one pound 

 sterling. This seems to be peculiar to Norway, as I never observed it 

 during my subsequent travels. [It would appear to be F. cervaria, 

 but much stretched, and the tail imperfect.] Of the two others, which 

 I met with in Lapland and Sweden, one that I saw at Urnea measured, 

 from the muzzle to the beginning of the tail, five feet eleven inches [!], 

 and the tail was hardly two inches and a half. The appearance of the 

 skin in every respect so much resembled that of the Leopard, that I 

 should have suspected it to have belonged to that animal, had it not 

 been for its tufted ears, and the length and superior thickness of the 

 fur. [I presume this to have been an excessively stretched skin of 

 F. cervaria killed in summer, when the pale tips to the fur had disap- 

 peared.] The third species, which I met with in Swedish Lapland, 

 * Vide Note to p. 24. 



