THE LIVING WORLD. 
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The European Lynx (. Felts virgatus) is found from northern Spain to 
Scandinavia, and also in Asia. The summer dress of the European lynx is a 
dark-gray, intermingled with red, but this becomes a grizzly-white with the 
WILD CAT OF THE WESTERN STATES. 
EUROPEAN LYNX. 
approach of winter. It is spotted and patched in darker color. It is about 
three feet in length, exclusive of its tail, and is hunted for its fur. 
The Southern, or 
Pardine Lynx (Lynx 
pardinus ), is marked 
more like a leopard and 
flourishes in Spain and 
Portugal. 
The Canada Lynx 
(Fells canadensis) wears 
its hair longer and sub¬ 
stitutes black for red with 
an intermixture of gray. 
It runs in. leaps, light¬ 
ing on all four feet at 
once. It is harmless 
and easily killed by a 
blow, notwithstanding 
the fact that it is the giant ape (extinct) ( Mesopithecus peutelici). 
largest of the lynxes. 
The Booted Lynx (Fells, or lynx caligatus ,) wears long, black hair on the 
sides and back of its legs, so that its appearance has suggested the popular 
name. It is a small animal and lives in Asia and Africa. 
PRIMATES. 
The highest of the mammals, excluding man, are the Quaarumana , or four- 
handed animals, including the various species of monkeys, baboons and apes and 
