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Europe are more difficult to ascertain from want of specimens for comparison. The less amount 
of black at the end of the tail distinguishes it from Felis lynx and cervaria of Europe, in which 
the terminal half of the tail is black, and where also the tail itself is longer than the head, and 
the fur showing distinct dots or blotches on the ground color ; in this quite different from the 
Canada lynx. These species, too, appear to have uncovered pads on the soles, with the Lynx 
or Felis borealis; however, the precise amount of relationship is by no means clear. The 
F. borealis of Thunberg is considered by Nilsson and Wagner as identical with cervaria, while 
Keyserling and Blasius retain F. borealis as distinct, and characterize it as much like our 
Canada lynx, except that the whiskers are stated to be black. 
European authors do not, however, seem agreed, on the whole, that there is a European species 
corresponding with the Canada lynx, and although Temminck, in describing the latter as F. 
borealis, says it is found on both continents, yet Wagner evidently hesitates to follow him in 
extending its range to Europe. While, therefore, the Canada lynx may occur in Europe, or 
one similar to it, on the other hand, what is called Felis borealis, may be, as stated by Nilsson 
and others, only a highly developed Felis cervaria .—See Keyserling & Blasius, Wirbelthiere 
Europas, and Nilsson’s Skandinavisk Fauna, 1, 1847, 125, &c. 
List of specimens. 
Catalogue 
number. 
Corresponding 
No. of skull. 
Sex & 
age. 
Locality. 
When 
collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Original 
number. 
Nature of spe¬ 
cimen. 
77 
1872 
Fort Union, Nebraska. ... 
1 Main Fork, Medicine Bow 
river, Nebraska. 
Winter, 1850 
Aug. 6,1856 
A. Culbertson_ 
Skin_... 
2570 
3 
Lt. F. T. Bryan; col¬ 
lected by W. S.Wood 
217 
..do. 
