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new species or varieties ; one of large size and 

 brown colour was seen in the mountains near 

 Columbia river, between the Great Falls anji 

 Rapids; (perhaps the Canis nubilus, Say, to be 

 described hereafter ?) Another is found on the 

 borders of the Pacific ocean, which burrows like 

 the fox. (This has not been described.) Two 

 other smaller species inhabit woodlands, and 

 show themselves occasionally in the plains ; (per- 

 haps Canis latra?is, Say ?) 



Mackenzie mentions a little wolf he met with 

 between the sixty-fifth and seventieth degrees of 

 north latitude, which attacks the beavers. 



Species. 



3. Canis lycaoti, Linn. Gmel. Erxleb. Schreb. 

 Lotcp noire, Buff. hist. nat. v. 9. pi. 41, and Encyc. 

 pi. 104. fig. 4, 



Char. Essent. Tail straight ; body totally black. 



Dimensions. Intermediate between those of the 

 common wolf and fox. 



Description. Resemblins; the common wolf in 

 form and proportion, but the eyes are rather 

 smaller, and ears longer ; hair entirely black. 



The black wolf of Florida, of which Bartram 

 speaks as having a Avhite spot on the breast (in 

 the female,) is mentioned as a variety of the C. ly- 

 caon, by Warden. 



Gmelin and Erxleben, have erroneously ap- 



