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18 to 25 inches long, tail with hairs 9 to 12 inches. Abundant in the 

 southern as well as in the northern counties ; very plentiful in Long 

 Island ; does not extend far beyond 42 N.L., and its southern limit reaches 

 as far as Florida. 



Gray has figured Canis ochropus (Cojote) in the Voyage of the Sulphur, 

 p. 32, pi. 10. Description and dimensions are wanting. Gray only says, 

 that in this specimen the ears and face are considerably longer, and the 

 colour darker than in a specimen of the Prairie "Wolf. 



With respect to C. Lupaster and Aiithus, Suudevall remarks, as I had 

 previously done, that they scarcely differ from C. aureus. (K. V. Acad. 

 Handl. 18-42, p. 210.) 



Vulpes flavescem, from Persia, has been instituted as a new species by 

 Gray (Ann. Nat. Hist, xi, p. 118); pale yellowish, back rather darker; 

 face, and outer side of the forelegs and root of tail pale fulvous ; a spot in 

 front of the eyes, cliin, front of the forelegs, a round spot on the upper part 

 of the hind foot, and the tips of the hair on the tail blackish ; cars black 

 externally ; point of the tail white. In what respect this Fox differs from 

 the lighter coloured varieties of ours is not said. 



The fossil remains of a Dog from the alluvium of Auvergne have been 

 described by Pomel as Canis megamastoides. (Instit. 1843, p. GO.) 



HY.ENINA. Lund has corrected his former account of 

 the occurrence of an extinct Hycena in the Brazilian Caverns. 

 (Det. K. Danske Yidensk. Selskabs Naturvidensk og 

 Mathemat. Afhandl. ix, 1842, p. 121.) 



At first he was acquainted only with the front teeth, which he found to 

 correspond with those of the Hyana. He afterwards discovered the canines, 

 which are of an entirely different conformation, viz., being very much com- 

 pressed, with cutting edges before and behind, and very slightly curved. 

 Among living animals, the canine teeth of the Cuatis only present any 

 resemblance in this respect, but those of the extinct animal exceed in size 

 everything that is known of this sort of tooth. 



An astragalus is in its form intermediate between that of the Cat and that 

 of the Bear : certain metatarsal bones exhibit in the detail of their confor- 

 mation a striking resemblance with those of the Cat, whilst in their massive- 

 ness they can only be compared with those of the Bear ; and besides these, 

 some phalanges altogether as in the Bear, and to which they were previously 

 referred by Lund. In size, this remarkable Carnivor must have equalled 

 the largest feline species and Bears. Lund now assigns to it the name of 

 Smilodon. With respect to its systematic position he says nothing ; but the 

 canine teeth bring to mind Felis (Stenodon or Ursus) cultrldcus. 



FELINA. On Boitard's Monograph of the genus Felis, in the Diet. 



