Vol. XVII, pp 157-158 October 6, 1904 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A NEW COYOTE FROiAI SOUTHERN MEXICO. 

 BY C. HART MERRTAM. 



Among the specimens recently collected by E. A. Goldman in 

 southern Chiapas, near the boundary of Guatemala, is an unde- 

 scribed species of Coyote. It is much larger than any heretofore 

 discovered in Mexico and may be known from the following 

 description : 



Canis goldmani pp. nnv. 



Type from San Vicente, Chiapas, Mexico, near Guatemala border. No. 

 133,204. Adult female. U. S. National Museum, Biological Survey Collec- 

 tion. April 25, 1904. E. A. Goldman. Original No. 16,725. 



Characters.— ^\zQ large — largest of the INIexican species, larger than lestes 

 and equal to latrans except that the rostrum is not so long. 



Color. — Muzzle, top of head, ears, and legs fulvous; face grizzled graj'ish 

 fulvous ; some black hairs in ears; back grizzled buffy gray and fulvous ; 

 underfur pale fulvous, much paler than in rigilis or ragatth. 



Cranial c/tamdfns.— Muzzle rather broad ; postorbital processes strongly 

 developed; frontals deeply sulcate ; bullae very large, larger than in any 

 known species ; very broad and flattened on outer side ; teeth large, thf)se 

 of female about as large as in male cagottis, except lower carnassial, which 

 is decidedly smaller than in cagolUs. 



Measurements (of type, adult female).— Total length, 1,220 ; tail vertebrae, 

 355 ; hind foot, 216. 



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