1842.] A Monograph of the Species of Lynx. 759 



differed very materially from the other two, being of an uniform red- 

 dish-brown colour [summer aspect of F. borealis] . In length it exceed- 

 ed five feet [!] . This, which I imagine to be the same as the North 

 American Lynx, and the animal most commonly known by the term 

 Lynx, I have seen alive in the collections of this country, though of a 

 much smaller size." Sir Arthur proceeds to remark on the magnitude 

 of the skins noticed ; and if my presumed identifications of them are 

 correct, he does not appear to have been acquainted with the ordinary 

 species of the northern forests, or veritable Warg-lo (Wargilue) of the 

 Swedes. 



The Caracal (F. Caracal, Auct). This well-known species ap- 

 pears to bear that affinity to the Domestic Cat, which the preceding do 

 to the European Wild Cat ; and like its analogue, is distinguished by 

 having a tapering tail, in addition to its facile capability for domestica- 

 tion : individuals, however, vary in this respect, as observable in all 

 the higher animals. Length about two feet and a half, the tail nine or 

 ten inches additional ; ears three inches, or with tufts three-quarters of 

 an inch more ; and height of the back sixteen or eighteen inches. Gene- 

 ral colour bright fulvous-brown, silvered over with whitish tips in win- 

 ter, and paler on the under-parts, with some spots generally obscure, but 

 sometimes tolerably distinct, on the belly, flanks, and inside of limbs ; 

 ears black without, terminating below in a point considerably beyond 

 the ear ; no black spot on the border of the upper lip, but one where 

 the moustaches grow, and another above each eye, and there is a line 

 down each side of the nose ; extreme tail- tip black. 



This animal is common to all Africa, from Barbary to the Cape of 

 Good Hope, where it is not unfrequent ; also to a considerable portion 

 of western and even central Asia, being termed Tsogde in Little Tibet, 

 and Ech in Ladakh, as I was informed by Mr. Vigne, who shewed me 

 an excellent drawing of a trained one he saw in the former country: 

 but if it exist, according to the current statement, in India, it must be 

 only or chiefly in the western parts, not improbably in the same districts 

 as the Lion : for though its range is asserted in the Diet. Class. aVHist. 

 Nat. to extend from Barbary to Bengal, and Mr. Ogilby mentions it 

 as met with in most parts of India,* while various other authorities 



* ' Mammalogy of the Himalaya,' p. 10. 



