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plied to the Canis lycaon, citations which relate 

 to the gray fox of North America. 



Inhabits mountainous countries of Europe and 

 North America. 



Species. 



4. Canis latrans, Prairie wolf, Say. Long's ex- 

 ped. to the Rocky Mountains, vol. 1. p. 168. 



Char. Essent. Hair cinereus gray, varied with 

 black above and dull fulvous cinnamon, and at tip 

 gray or black ; longer on the vertebral line. 



Dimensions. Total length, including the tail, 

 with the exception of the hair at its tip, three 

 feet nine and a half inches ; trunk of the tail, one 

 foot one and a half inches ; length of the ears, four 

 inches ; length of the fore leg, one foot. 



Description. Hair at base, dusky plumbeous, 

 in the middle of its length, dull cinnamon, at tip, 

 gray or black ; ears erect, round at tip, cinnamon 

 colour behind; dark plumbeous at base; inside 

 lined with gray hairs ; iris yellow ; pupil dark 

 blue ; lips white ; three series of black setae ; sides 

 paler than the back, obsoletely fasciate with black 

 above the legs ; legs cinnamon colour on the outer 

 side ; a dilated black .abbreviated line near the 

 wrist ; tail straight, bushy, fusiform, varied with 

 gray and cinnamon, tip black. 



Habit. They are by far the most numerous of 

 our wolves ; roaming over the plains in numbers 

 during the nighty hunting the deer; sometimes 



