66 CARNIVORA. 
Hab. Paumarctic Reeion ; Norra America, from Grinnell Land southwards.—MExico, 
Sonora (Kennedy®), Matamoras, Santa Cruz, Saltillo (U.S. Nat. Mus.*), Guanajuato 
(Dugeés®). 
The Mexican Wolf was described by Linnzus as a distinct species, founded on the 
Xoloitzcuintli of Hernandez‘, and was recognized asa variety of C. occidentalis by 
Professor Baird, who gave as diagnosis :—“ Varied with grey and black; neck maned ~ 
more than usual; a black or dusky band encircling the muzzle; a dusky stripe 
down the fore leg”’. But the labours of later observers, and especially those of 
Mr. J. A. Allen”, have conclusively proved that no specific distinctions can be found 
between the Wolves of various parts of North America, and that no constant characters 
have yet been pointed out by which they can be separated from the C. /upus of Europe 
and Northern Asia. We have thus the interesting fact of a “circumpolar” species 
extending its range into the tropics; for the “Lobo” of the Mexicans, besides being 
common in the northern provinces of the Republic, has been found by Dr. Dugés as 
far south as the State of Guanajuato®>. As is the case with so many American 
mammals of a northern type, the southern Wolves are greatly inferior in size to their 
subarctic brethren; and Mr. Allen has shown that the difference of the length of the 
skull of a number of North-Mexican and Hudson-Bay examples amounts to no less than 
twenty-five per cent. of the average size of the whole series °. 
In Northern Mexico the naturalists of the United-States Boundary Survey reported, 
‘Near Santa Cruz, in Sonora, we found this animal more common than we had 
observed it elsewhere on our route. It, as well as the Coyote, was often destructive 
to the flocks around the village. It often, too, attacks the young cattle, both domestic 
and wild, of this region, which are forced to succumb to its great strength” 8. 
2. Canis latrans. 
Canis latrans, Say, Long’s Exped. i. p. 168 (1823, descr. orig.)'; Baird, Mamm. N. Am. p. 113’; 
Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. Surv. ii., Mamm. p. 15°; Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 137%. 
Lyciscus latrans, Frantzius, Arch. f. Naturg. xxxv. 1, p. 282’. 
Coyotl seu Vulpes Indica, Hernandez, De Quad. Nov. Hisp. fol. iv. cap. xiii. 
Coyote of Spanish Americans. 
Hab. Norta America, from about 40° N. lat. southwards.—MeExico (Hernandez, 
Baird *, Dugés*); Guatemata, San Gerdnimo (Godman & Salvin); Costa Rica, 
Guanacaste, Nicoya (frantzius®). 
The well-known Coyote or Prairie-Wolf of North America was found by the natu- 
ralists of the United-States Boundary Survey to be extremely numerous in the northern 
provinces of Mexico?; and Dr. Dugés says it is found in all parts of that Republic 4. 
“In Guatemala,” Messrs. Godman and Salvin inform me, “the Coyote is an animal 
