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External Measurements. — It is not possible to remove the skull and 

 limb-bones without injuring the mummy for exhibition purposes. 

 A few dimensions, however, follow: — 



Length from nose to root of tail, following backbone — about 700 nun. 



Length of tail, (bnjken at tip) slightly over 200 



Hind foot ' 141 



Femur (approximately) 14o 



Tibia (approximateh-) 143 



Upper jaw, front of canine to back of pm* 55.5 



l^'pper carnassial ipm*) 18 



Length of skull from occiput to tip of nose (.appro.ximately) . . 195 



Width outside upper canines 31 



" " carnassials 54 



Zygomatic width — about 95 



Lower jaw, front of canine to back of mi 68 . 5 



« u u n 11 ii « a AQ 



" '■ jitHi to pnii 35 



Length of lower carnassial 21 



Larger or ("ommox Indian Dog. 

 Plates 7, 8. . 



1817. Cants fdniiliiiris <uncricanus canadensis Walther, Hund, p. 43. 



1829. Canis faniiliaris YAr. c. canadensis Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Amer., 1, 



p. 80 (not Canis lupus canadensis Blainville 1841, which is Canis lycaon 



Schreber) . 

 1834-6. Canis canadensis Reichenbach, Regn. anim., i)t. 1, p. 46, fig. 564. 

 Canis familiaris urtholu^ cniiadcnsis Reichenbach, Naturg. raubth.. 



p. 146, fig. 564. 

 1867. Canis domesticus borealis luparius Fitzinger, Sitzb. K. akatl. wiss. Wien, 



56, pt. 1, p. 409 (not C. ./'. nrt-hotus Iupariu>i Reichenbach, Regne anim., 



pt. 1, p. 13, fig. 131; not Cants donieslicu-i luparius Fitzinger, Sitzb. 



K. akad. wiss. Wien, 1866, 54, pt. 1, p. 406; 1867, 56, pt. 1, p. 396. 

 1881. Canis lutrans domesticus Langdon, Journ. Cine. soc. nat. hist., 3, 



p. 299 (not Cam's ftnniliaris domesticus Linne, 1766). 



Characters. — This was probably closely related to the Plains-Indian 

 Dog, but seems to have been usually solid black or black and white 

 in patches instead of resembling the Coyote in color. The skull has, 

 when adult, a knife-like sagittal crest, a high forehead, and is rather 

 slender. Limbs much longer than in the Short-legged Indian Dog 



