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CANIS. 



OCHRACEOUS-FOOTED COYOTE. 



Type locality. California. Typical style from Tracy, San Joa- 

 quin County, California. 



Geogr. Distr. Lower California, Mexico, to San Joaquin Valley, 

 California. 



Genl. Char. Similar to C. latrans, but smaller, darker, and more 

 highly colored; ears larger, skull and teeth smaller. 



Color. Muzzle grizzled cinnamon rufous; top of head grayish 

 fulvous; rest of upper parts buffy ochraceous mixed with black; 

 under parts whitish; belly tinged with buff; ruff grizzled, hairs tipped 

 with black, sometimes going on the breast, as in C. estor and C. mearnsi ; 

 fore and hind legs and feet fulvous all round, paler on inner side, and 

 very deep on outer side of hind leg; upper side of fore leg strongly 

 marked with black ; outer side of thighs with black-tipped hairs ; tail 

 beneath pale fulvous, white basally, tipped and edged with black; 

 on terminal third of under side the hairs are black-tipped; extreme 

 tip often white. 



Measurements. Total length, mo; tail vertebrae, 295; hind foot, 

 1 80. Skull: basal length, 177; Hensel, 174; zygomatic breadth, 94; 

 palatal length, 98; mastoid breadth, 62; crown of upper sectorial, 19. 



FIG. LXII. CANIS MEXICANUS. MEXICAN TIMBER WOLF. 



