VOL. XVII, PP. 157-158 OCTOBER 6, 1904 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A NEW COYOTE FROM SOUTHERN MEXICO. 

 BY C. HART MERRIAM. 



Among the specimens recently collected by E. A. Goldman in 

 southern Chiapas, near the boundary of Guatemala, is an unde- 

 scribed species of Coyote. It is much larger than any heretofore 

 discovered in Mexico and may be known from the following 

 description : 



Canis goldtnani sp. nov. 



Type from San Vicente, Chiapas, Mexico, near Guatemala border. No. 

 133,204. Adult female. U. S. National Museum, Biological Survey Collec 

 tion. April 25, 1904. E.A.Goldman. Original No. 16,725. 



Characters. Size large largest of the Mexican species, larger than lestes 

 and equal to latrans except that the rostrum is not so long. 



Color. Muzzle, top of head, ears, and legs fulvous; face grizzled grayish 

 fulvous ; some black hairs in ears; back grizzled buffy gray and fulvous ; 

 underfur pale fulvous, much paler than in vigilis or cagottis. 



Cranial characters. Muzzle rather broad ; postorbital processes strongly 

 developed ; frontals deeply sulcate ; bullse very large, larger than in any 

 known species ; very broad and flattened on outer side ; teeth large, those 

 of female about as large as in male cagottis, except lower carnassial, which 

 is decidedly smaller than in cngottis. 



Measurements (of type, adult female). Total length, 1,220 ; tail vertebrae, 

 355 ; hind foot, 216. 



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