CANIS. 469 



throat and ventral region only slightly suffused with pale fulvous 

 instead of buffy ochraceous, and fore and hind legs and feet not bright 

 orange fulvous all around, but fore legs posteriorly, and hind legs and 

 feet anteriorly pale fulvous or pale yellowish white, as in cagottis." 



Measurements. "Type, total length, 1143; head and body, 838; 

 tail vertebrae, 305; hind foot, 178. Skull: total length, 190; Hensel, 

 163; palatal length, 89; zygomatic breadth, 93; mastoid breadth, 59; 

 length of crown of upper carnassial, 19.3." (Allen, 1. c.) 



472. microdon (Canis}, Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xi, 1897, p. 29. 

 TAMAULIPAS COYOTE. 



Type locality. Mier, on the Rio Grande, State of Tamaulipas, 

 Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. State of Tamaulipas, Mexico; range unknown. 



Genl. Char. Size small; colors dark. 



Color. Upper parts buffy ochraceous and black; nose rufous; 

 ears fulvous; crown grayish ochraceous; under parts whitish; middle 

 of belly buffy and black; legs and feet fulvous, whitish on inner side 

 of legs; tail above like back, beneath whitish at base, rest pale ful- 

 vous, with black-tipped hairs. 



Measurements. Total length, 1070; tail vertebras, 320; hind foot, 

 186. Skull: basal length, 161; Hensel, 158; zygomatic breadth, 93.5; 

 palatal length, 84; mastoid breadth, 57 ; crown of upper sectorial, 16.5. 



473. estor (Canis), Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xi, 1897, p. 31. 

 NOLAND'S RANCH COYOTE. 



Type locality. Noland's Ranch, San Juan River, San Juan 

 County, Utah. 



Geogr. Distr. Lower California, Mexico, north to the deserts of 

 eastern California, Nevada, and Utah. 



Genl. Char. Size small ; color pale ; carnassial and molar teeth small. 



Color. Muzzle pale fulvous; top of head gray and buff; ears and 

 nape ochraceous buff; upper parts buffy mixed with black; under 

 parts whitish ; ruff conspicuously black-tipped ; outer side of fore legs 

 bright buff, pale on inner side and on fore feet ; outer side of hind legs 

 and feet buffy ochraceous ; inner side of hind leg and upper surface of 

 hind foot white; under side of tail ochraceous, white basally, hairs of 

 distal half tipped with black; tip of tail black. 



Measurements. Total length, 1052; tail vertebras, 300; hind foot, 

 179. Skull: basal length, 159; Hensel, 155; zygomatic breadth, 89; 

 mastoid breadth, 57; palatal length, 84; upper sectorial, crown, 17.2. 



474. ochropus (Canis}, Eschsch., Zool. Atlas, in, 1829, pp. 1-2, pi. n. 



Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p, 303. 



