Mountain Bobcat 
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dog without showing fight. Not much seems to be known 
about their breeding habits. 
Lynx uinta. Mountain Bobcat 
Lynx uinta Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xv., pp. 71-72, March 
22, 1902. 
Type locality. — Bridger Pass, south slope Uinta Mountains, Uinta 
Co., Wyoming. 
Measurements. — Male: total length, 36.5; tail vert., 6.5; hind 
foot, 7.25. Female: total length, 31.5; tail vert., 5.75; hind foot, 
7-25- 
Description. — In color this Bobcat is rather variable, some speci- 
mens being much grayer than others; but the usual type of colora- 
tion is, above, buffy, much grizzled with gray and black, the latter 
color being most prominent on middle of back and on shoulders, 
but there are no distinct spots or other markings above ; the under 
parts are white with black spots, which become bands on inner 
sides of fore and hind legs. A large black crescent or spot on upper 
half of end of tail, and two or three blackish or fulvous bands in front 
of this black spot. Edge of back of ear black, then gray for about 
half the height of the ear, whose lower half is buffy like back. Com- 
paratively little black on under surface of feet. The skull of a 
female of this species has already been mentioned in comparison 
with that of L. baileyi. It is that of a fully grown animal, though 
not as old as that of the species it was compared with. Several 
skulls of males of L. uinta are at hand. These are essentially alike 
in their characteristics and present much the same features as in 
the case of the female, except that they are larger; but for a cat 
they are relatively long and narrow with the postorbital process 
sloping abruptly downward. 
Distribution. — The Mountain Bobcat is found in Utah and Colo- 
rado and very likely in Wyoming and New Mexico, but we have 
no information on that point. In Colorado it seems to be found 
from the eastern base of the mountains westward. It has been 
recorded from El Paso, Teller, Grand, Routt, Rio Blanco, Gunnison, 
Chaffee, Custer, Delta, Montrose, and San Miguel counties. It 
ranges high in the mountains, to 10,000 feet or more. 
Genus FELIS (Lat., a cat) 
Felis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., loth ed., i., p. 41 (1758). Type Felis 
leo Linnaeus. 
Revision (of Felis concolor group), Merriam, Proc. Wash. Acad^ 
Sci., iii., pp. 577-600 (1901). 
