CAN IS. 465 



Alopex Kaup. Entw.-Gesch. & Naturl. Syst. Europ. Thierw., i, 



1829, p. 83. 

 Lyciscus H. Smith, in Jard., Nat. Libr. Mamm., ix, 1839, pp. 



160-166. 



Leucocyon Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1868, p. 561. 

 Neocyon Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1868, p. 506. 



Nose long, tapering; jaws elongate; postorbital processes short; 

 orbit open posteriorly; braincase lengthened, compressed anteriorly; 

 claws short, blunt, slightly curved; upper carnassial with a strong 

 blade, the middle lobe conical, pointing backward, the anterior lobe 

 nearly obsolete; lower carnassial with a bilobed blade, compressed, 

 the hinder lobe the larger, with two cusps and a raised interior border. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



A. Size small ; tail about half the length of body. 



a. Teeth large, heavy. PAGE 



a/ Under surface of tail ochraceous; tip black C. lestes 465 



b/ Under surface of tail fulvous; tip black. 



a." Rostrum thick; palate short, broad C. cagottis 466 



b/ 7 Rostrum longer; palate longer, wider. .C. peninsula 466 



c/' Rostrum short; palate very broad C. clepticus 467 



c/ Under surface of tail fulvous, basally 



whitish C. vigilis 467 



b. Teeth small. 



a/ Forearm bright orange; no black C. mearnsi 468 



b.' Forearm pale fulvous C. impavidus 468 



c/ Forearm mixed with black on upper side. . .C. microdon 469 



d.' Forearm bright buff C. estor 469 



e/ Forearm deep fulvous C. ochropus 469 



B. Size large; tail longer than half the body with- 

 out head; colors variable C. mexicanus 471 



465. lestes (Caw's), Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xi, 1897, p. 25. 



Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 301. 

 ROBBER COYOTE. Coyote in Spanish America for all small wolves. 



Type locality. Toyabe Mountains, near Cloverdale, Nye County, 

 Nevada. 



Geogr. Distr. Northern Mexico probably, through Arizona and 

 New Mexico to Washington and Southern British Columbia. 



Genl. Char. Size medium; ears and tail large; color similar to 

 that of C. latrans. Skull and teeth medium. 



Color. Muzzle pale cinnamon rufous; top of head grizzled gray 

 and ochraceous; crown, nape, and ears fulvous; rest of upper parts 



