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



might be cited to the same effect, yet it is neither included in Col. 

 Sykes's list of the Mammalia of the Deccan, nor in the elaborate Cata- 

 logue of those of the Southern Mahratta country by Mr. Elliot, neither 

 can I learn of any trace of it in Bengal ; Mr. Hodgson omits it in his 

 list of Nepalese Mammalia (/. A. S. t X, 908), and, proceeding eastward, 

 Dr. Griffith among those of Assam. It is even likely that, like the 

 Cherrug Falcon, trained individuals may be occasionally brought from 

 beyond the Indus, and that such have erroneously induced the state- 

 ment that they were indigenous to the provinces where seen. It is 

 said to inhabit Arabia, as well as Persia, and it is not unfrequently 

 designated the Persian Lynx, being trained, especially in that country, 

 to creep and spring upon game, in the manner of the Cheetah. This 

 animal is the Karrah Kulak of Persia, Gat el Khalleh of Barbary, and 

 bears the name of Seer-gosch in India. M. Temminck states, that the 

 wild Caracals hunt in packs of several individuals, pursuing and attack- 

 ing game in the manner of wild Dogs ; but this, I should say, much 

 requires confirmation; as does particularly its claim to be considered 

 as indigenous to India.* 



There is a Felis aurata, Temminck, (not Lynx auratus of Raffinesque,) 

 which appears to need further establishment as distinct from the Caracal. 

 It is described as rather smaller than that species, with tail half the 

 length of the body, a brown band along the median line of the tail, but 

 the extreme point black. Ears short, rounded, not penicillated ; the 

 coat very short and lustrous. All the upper-parts are very bright 

 rufous-bay and spotless, with indistinct streaks of a somewhat deeper 

 tint on the flanks ; lower parts reddish- white, marked with large and 

 small spots of maronne-brown ; ears perfectly black without, and red- 

 dish within ; limbs golden. Length three feet four inches, of which the 

 tail is twelve inches and a quarter. Described from a skin purchased 

 in London, locality unknown. 



* Since writing the above, i have been assured of one having been killed near Jubul- 

 pore, in central India — E B. 



