CARNIVOR . 
87 
Erlangen. It was brought from South America by 
Prince Maximilian of Neuwied, or by Count Hoff- 
mansegg. It is about two feet long j the tail ten or 
eleven inches. The hairs are extremely soft, long, 
and silky; the ground-colour is white ; but the animal 
is variously clouded with several shades of colour. 
There seems strong reason to conclude, that this is 
the Spanish or tortoiseshell cat, in a wild state ; 
otherwise it must be an undescribed species. 
.Of the American lynxes one species is described 
by Guldenstedt as about twice the size of a large cat. 
The colour bright bay, with obscure darker spots ; 
and the throat and hinder parts white ; three stripes 
pass from each eye down the cheek ; the insides of 
the legs are marked with two dark bars ; the tail is 
marked with four or five bars, and the tip is black. 
Cuvier makes this the chat cervier of the furriers. 
There was a specimen in Mr. RiddePs museum, 
which is figured on the same plate with the chaus 
at page 60, which was about two feet six inches long, 
and the tail nearly ten inches. The beard, chin, 
throat, and the insides of the ears, were white ; 
the outsides and the whole remaining parts of the 
animal were of a fine rusty yellow, or bright bay, 
palest beneath. The claws of the outer toes of the 
fore feet were wanting ; and those on the thumbs 
were nearly double the strength of the others. 
This animal is, in all probability, the felis rufa, or 
bay lynx of Guldenstedt, above-mentioned, but ap- 
pears to be distinct from the chat cervier of the 
French furriers, which is after mentioned under the 
name of the United States lynx. 
