Mammals of Washington, Volume 2: University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural HistoryDalquest, Walter Woelber
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Mammals of Washington, Volume 2: University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History
Dalquest, Walter Woelber
Mammals -- Washington (State)
_Felis oregonensis oregonensis_ Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull.,
128:158, April 29, 1924.
_Felis concolor oregonensis_ Nelson and Goldman, Jour. Mamm.,
10:347, November 11, 1929.
_Type locality._--"Oregon Mountains, or east or west of them."
_Racial characters._--Light, rounded skull, dark color, extensive
black on tip of tail and short, rather coarse fur.
_Distribution._--From the eastern base of the Cascade Mountains
westward to the Pacific. Marginal records are (trappers'
specimens): Ruby, Leavenworth, and Goldendale.
=Felis concolor missoulensis= Goldman
_Felis concolor missoulensis_ Goldman, Jour. Mamm., 24:229, June 8,
1943.
_Type._--Obtained 10 miles southwest of Missoula, Missoula County,
Montana, by R. and C. Thompson, on December 30, 1936; type in
United States National Museum.
_Racial characters._--A large cougar with heavy, wide skull, pale
color and rather long, soft fur.
_Distribution._--Northeastern Washington west at least to Republic
(W.W.D.) and the Blue Mountains of southeastern Washington.
_Remarks._--Goldman (1943: 229) states "Between the Rocky
Mountains and the Cascade Range _missoulensis_ intergrades with
_oregonensis_." My own comparison of specimens reveals differences
of considerable magnitude between the cougars of western and
northeastern Washington. I suppose that intergradation takes place
in a limited area in, and west of, the Okanogan River Valley in
Washington.
[Illustration: FIG. 75. Canadian lynx, _Lynx canadensis_, male, taken
February 16, 1939, on Baldy Mountain, northwest Idaho, by Lloyd
Robinson of Sandpoint. (Ross A. Hall photo.)]
=Lynx canadensis canadensis= Kerr
Canadian lynx
_Lynx canadensis_ Kerr, Anim. Kingd., 1: systematic catalogue
inserted between pages 32 and 33 (description, p. 157), 1792.
_Lynx borealis canadensis_ True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 7:611,
1885.
_Lynx canadensis canadensis_ Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull.,
128:160, April 29, 1924.
_Type locality._--Eastern Canada.
_Measurements._--A female from Buttermills Creek, Twisp River,
Okanogan County, measured: total length 900; length of tail 95;
hind foot 205.
_Distribution._--Higher parts of the Cascade Mountains, Blue
Mountains and mountains of northeastern Washington, recorded from
Oroville on the north (W. W. D.) to Mount Adams (Taylor and Shaw,
1929: 13) on the south.
[Illustration: FIG. 76. Canadian lynx (_Lynx canadensis_), catch of
nine, with two coyotes, taken by Lester Fairbrother in hills west of
Oroville, Washington, March, 1938. (Lester Fairbrother photo.)]
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