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Show 322 Measurements of eight skulls of FEUS CONCOLOR. II 3811 8597 3267 1148 1356 1355 1895 1158 Locality. Sssex County, New York Eagle Paw, T< Y » MT. -- T T- T Trrrr- Rio'Grwide, Texas do..-.-* RrafiM River, T e x a n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sex. Length. 7.40 7.50 7.80 7.75 7.50 8.40 a so & 75 Width. 5.25 5.05 a is 4.95 5.00 5.35 5.60 5.50 Bemarka. Old Quite immature. Do FELIS PARDALIS. Fourteen skulls of Felis partialis show a most decided southward hi-crease in size. A series of live skulls from the Lower Bio Grande aver age about an inch shorter than another series of nine from Southern Mexico and Central America. The largest of the Bio Grande skulls has a length of 5.25, while the smallest of the Mexican and Central American series ( excluding one rather young specimen) has a length of 5.20, and the largest a length of 6.20. The three largest ( 6.00 to 6.25) are from Costa Rica, while one other from Panama and another from Surinam are bat little smaller. The smallest of the Bio Grande series ( a rather yonng specimen) is but 4.50 in length; the smallest of the tropical series ( a specimen of corresponding age) 5.35. The difference in size with locality is thus as great in this species and in Felis concolor as it is in the Wolves and Foxes; but the increase is in the opposite direction,- to the northward in the former and to the southward in the latter; the one group being a northern type, the other a tropical. Measurements of fourteen skulls of FELIS PARDALIS. U if 1363 1369 1361 1359 1356 6023 7080 13859 11743 14189 14170 14180 14178 13005 ' Locality. If fttanwrM, Me^ ioo * T T r - r T **..... T ,,.... T - do do do do Tehuantepec, Ifexioo Isthmus ox Darieu CoBtaRioa do do do Surin am i Length. 4.50 4.90 5.05 5.90 5.95 5.60 5.70 5.50 5.85 6.00 6.00 6.90 5.35 5.80 3 2 a 05 3.35 a 35 3.50 3.40 3.75 3.55 3.70 3.80 3.73 3.94 4.19 a 60 3.83 Remarks. Mature bnt not very old. Very oliL Do. Do. Adult but not very old. Very old. LYNX RUFUS ET LYNX CANADENSIS. In the subjoined table are given measurements of thirty- four skulls of North American Lynxes, namely, seven of L. faseiatus, ten of L. ruft* j eight of L. maculatuSj and nine of L. canadensis, representing localities as distant from each other as Alaska and Northern Mexico on the one hand, and New York and Fort Tejon, Cal., on the other. Yet the |