PERSIAN LYNX. 
In the supplement to this article, Buffon 
mentions, that Mr. Bruce saw, in that part of 
Nubia formerly called the Island of Meroe ; a 
Caracal which differed in some respe6ls from 
that of Barbary. The face is rounder; and 
the ears black on the outside, but interspersed 
with silver-coloured hairs. He has the Mule 
cross on his withers, hke most of the Barbary 
Caracals. On the breast, beily, and inside of 
the thighs, there are small bright yellow spots, 
and not blackish^brown, as in the Barbary Cara- 
cal. These are, only slight varieties, the num- 
ber of which might be still augmented ; for wc 
find, in Barbary, or rather in Lybia, near the 
ancient Capsa, a Caracal with white instead 
of black ears. The pencils of these white- 
eared Caracals are thin, short, and black. 
They have a white tail, the extremity of which 
is surrounded with four black rings ; with four 
black patches on the hind part of each leg, like 
the Nubian Caracal. They- are also smaller 
than the other Caracals, not exceeding the size 
of a Domestic Cat. The ears are white within, 
and covered on the outside with bushy hair of 
a lively red colour. If this difference in size 
' were constant, it might be alledgcd, that there 
