374 HERPESTES. CANIS. 



917. Herpestes mungo (Gmelin). 



Viverra mungo Gmel., Syst. Nat., i, 1788, p. 84. 



Herpestes mungo Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 

 F. C. M. Pub., IV, Pt. II, 1904, p. 462, figs. 85, Lxi. Zool. Ser. 

 Common Indian Mungoose. 



Type locality. India. 



Geogr. Distr. India. Introduced into the islands of Jamaica, 

 Porto Rico, St. Kitts, etc. 



Family III, Caiiidse. I>ogs, Wolves, Fo^^s. 



Subfamily I. Caninee. 

 Genus 114. Caiiis. Dogs, Wolves. 



Canis Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 38; and i, 1766, p. 56. Type 

 Cams jamiliaris Linnaeus. 

 Lupus Frisch, Nat.-Syst. vierfuss. Thiere, in Tabellen, 14, Tab. 



Gen., 1775. 

 Lyciscus H. Smith, Jard. Nat. Libr., Mamm., 2d ed., ix, 1839, 

 pp. 160-166. 



918. Canis pambasileus Elliot. 



Canis pambasileus Elliot, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xviii, 1905, p. 79. 

 Autocrat Timber Wolf. 



Type locality. Sushitna River, region of Mount McKinlej'', Alaska. 

 No. 13,481, Field Columbian Mus., Chicago. 



Genl. Char. Color from nearly uniform black to white and black 

 in various mixtures. Skull: size larger than those of the timber 

 wolves of Canada or United States; ridge of sagittal and occipital 

 crest nearly on a level with frontal and with only a very slight descent 

 at occiput and very deep at that point; maxillae very broad and 

 rounded posteriorly at junction with the frontals, much broader than 

 in C. occidentalis ; nasals pointed posteriorly, but considerably broader 

 than those of southern timber wolves; premaxillae extending con- 

 siderably over one-half the length of the nasals, while in C. occiden- 

 talis in some cases this bone does not reach over one third the length 

 of the nasals and occasionally not even that length; intertemporal 

 width considerable, with a deep median depression between the 

 frontals; the basisphenoid is very broad, and the postglenoid processes 

 very wide and flattened; the mandible is massive, heavy, very deep, 

 and of nearly uniform height on horizontal portion, with the inferior 

 outline nearly straight, very different from the curving outline of the 



