90 FAUNA AMERICANA. 



Dimensions. Total length, not including the 

 tail, two feet two inches. 



Description. Snout obscure red ; forehead and 

 cheeks more clear ; borders of the lips, white ; in- 

 terior of the ears, covered with yellowish-white 

 hair; exterior black; top and sides of the neck, 

 shoulders, and fore feet, a lively red ; tail varied 

 with black and red, extremity white. 



Species. 



11. Canis cinereo-argenteus, tricolour ed fox\ 

 Erxleb. Linn. Gmel. Renard gris, Briss. Quad, 

 p. 241. 



Char. Essent. Upper part of the body, black 

 gray; head reddish-gray; ears and sides of the 

 neck a lively red ; throat and cheeks white ; in- 

 ferior jaw black; belly and tail reddish, glazed 

 with black ; tip of the tail deep black. 



Dimensions. Total length, two feet two inches; 

 trunk of the tail, one foot one inch. 



Description. Between the eyes whitish, divid- 

 ed by a black longitudinal line, which is lost upon 

 the forehead ; superior lip white ; borders of the 

 lips black; beneath the eye an obscure spot, which 

 extends along the cheek nearly to the neck; tail 

 very bushy, covered with hairs about three inches 

 in length. 



Inhabits North America and Paraguay. 



