Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 - in five volumes (1790) (14772391934)

Booted Lynx, now thought to be Felis silvestris lybica
Identifier: travelstodiscov05bruc (find matches)
Title: Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes
Year: 1790 (1790s)
Authors: Bruce, James, 1730-1794 Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI
Subjects: Bruce, James, 1730-1794 Natural history Explorers
Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed by J. Ruthven, for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, London
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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fthe rabbit. I HAVE- 146 APPENDIX. I have no doubt that the El Akbar and the El Webro ofthe Arabs, are both the fame animal. The El Akbar onlymeans the largeft of the Mus-montanus, under which theyhave clafTed the Jerboa. The Jerd, and El Webro, as alfothe Afhkoko or Akbar, anfwer to the character of havingno tail. --&£***£* BOOTED LYNX. THIS is a very beautiful fpecies of Lynx, and, as far asI know, the fmalleft of the kind. His body from the tipof the nofe to the anus being only 22 inches. His back, neck,and forepart of his feet are of a dirty grey. His belly is of adirty white, fpotted with undefined marks, or flains ofred. Below his eyes, and on each lide of his nofe, is a red-difh brown,the back of his ears being of the fame colour, butrather darker; the infide of his ears is very thickly clothedwith fine white hair, and at the end is the pencil of hairsdiftin&ive of this genus. On the back of his forefeet,be has a black ftreak or mark, which reaches from his heel 1 two
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( ///h</ J),;\r!/),?y. /// fcjlolrinson k APPENDIX. , 147 two inches up his leg. On his hinder foot he has the fame,which reaches four inches from the heel, and ends juft be-low the firft joint, and from this circumftanCei have givenhim his name. His.tail is 13 inches long, the lower part of it, for 6 inches,is occupied with black rings. Between thefe rings his tailis nearly white, the reft much the fame colour as his back.From his nofe to his occiput is 4 inches and three quarters.From one eye to the other, meafuring acrofs his nofe, is oneinch and three quarters. From the bafe of one ear to that ofthe other, is 2 inches and fths. The aperture of the eyethree quarters of an inch, and of a yellow iris. The lengthof his ear from its bafe to the point of the pencil of hairsat the top of it, 4 inches and three quarters. From the foleof his forefoot to his fhoulder, as he Hands, 13 inches andthree quarters. From the fole of his hind foot, to the topof his rump, 15 i