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Jersey. It lacks entirely the white stripe on the inside of hind legs, 

 and the rusty throat patch is much longer (3 or 4 inches) than in 

 cinereo-argenteus, in which it often forms a narrow collar scarcely 

 dividing the white of lower head and throat from that of hreast. 



As I have already pointed out, 1 priority in naming the Gray Fox 

 belongs to Midler, who described it in 1776. Probably in the same 

 year a plate of this animal had been published by Schreber (Saug- 

 thiere, Tab. XCII ), on which he used the name " Canis cinereo-argenteus 

 Briss." The text belonging to the volume (Band III) in which this 

 plate was bound bears the date 1778. In the text Schreber nowhere 

 imposes the Latin name because of his expressed doubt whether 

 "Der Grisfuchs" might not be the same as "Der Virginische Fuchs," 

 which he named Canis virginianus. It is, therefore, apparent that 

 cinereo-argenteus was not adopted by Schreber but was merely quoted 

 on the plate to denote the animal which he considered the same as 

 the Canis cinereo-argenteus of Brisson. Schreber's plate of Der 

 Virginische Fuchs is copied from the preposterous one of Catesby, 

 while that of Der Grisfuchs is not a bad representation of the Gray 

 Fox, and his description of the animal (pp. 360, 361) is the first 

 accurate one published, in fact it would be hard to find a more reli- 

 able diagnosis of the external characters of the northern form than 

 this of Schreber's, taken from a furrier's pelt, sent from America to 

 Germany. 



Returning to Midler's description we find the additional statement 

 that his Canis cinereo-argenteus is based on Brisson' s animal as well 

 as on Schreber's plate above mentioned, but he gives no habitat. 

 Brisson (Regne Animal, 1756, p. 241) gives it: "Habitat in Caro- 

 lina, & Virginia in cavis arboribus. " The Gray Foxes which I have 

 examined from North Carolina and Virginia are essentially like those 

 of the Middle States, and it is therefore proper to apply Midler's 

 name to the northern as contrasted with the extreme southern form. 

 It is probable that there is little intergradation between the two, north 

 of southern Georgia and that typical floridanus is confined to penin- 

 sular Florida, as is the case with otber mammals in these regions 

 having the same distribution. 



Tamias lateralis saturatus subsp. now Type, ad. $ , Col. of S. X. Kboads, 

 No. 1,365. Lake Kicbelos, Kittitas Co., Washn. (elevation 8,000 ft.). Col. 

 by Allan Kupert, Sep., 1893. 



Description. — Size large, tail very long, foot and ear in the same 

 1 Reprint of Ord's Zoology, 1894, Appx., p. 8. 



