of legs banded with black. Tail, above rusty gray or brown, tip 

 black, beneath white. Ears black with a central gray spot. 

 Measurements. Total length, 824; tail vertebr;i', 115. 



i.—fl^ridana. {/,yn.x), Rafin., Am. Month. Mag., 11, 1817, p. 46. 



7y/>t- locality. Florida. 



Geogr. Distr. Florida to Louisiana, Gulf coast. 



Genl. Char. Slender, feet small, darker in color than F. rufa, 

 spotted. 



Color. Above and on sides gray without rufous tinge, spotted 

 and lined on body and head distinctly with black; dorsal surface 

 mixed with black. Tail, with half rings above and tip black, beneath 

 white; under parts white spotted with black. 



Measurements. Total length, about 890; tail, 175. 



449- gigas. {Lynx), Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1897, p. 50. 



Type locality. Bear River, Nova Scotia. 



Geogr. Distr. Nova Scotia, limits of range unknown. 



Genl. Char. Large, upper parts blackish. 



Color. Upper parts cinnamon and black, latter color most 

 prominent on back; tail above cinnamon mixed with black, beneath 

 white, tip black; under parts dull white spotted with black; pectoral 

 collar cinnamon; feet beneath black. 



Measurements. Type. Total length, 1,001; tail vertebrae, 177; 

 hind foot, 200. 



Fam. II. Caiiidae. 



St. George Mivart, Monograph of the Canidae, i8go. 



C. H. Merriam, Review of the Coyotes, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 1897, p. 19. 



Claws not retractile; feet digitigrade: four toes on hind foot, five 

 on fore foot, one rudimentary situated high above the others, some- 

 times absent. Bullae inflated; paroccipital process in contact with 

 bulla?. 



Sub. Fam. I. Cauinae. 



71. Caiiis. 



I- r^ C. ■=•; P. t=4. M. ?=? = 42. 

 3-3' 1—1' 4-4' i-i ^ 



Canis. Linn. Syst. Nat., 1766, i, p. 56. Type C. lupus. 



Nose long, tapering; jaws elongated; postorbital processes of the 

 frontals short; orbit open posteriorly; brain case lengthened, com- 

 pressed anteriorly; claws short, blunt, slightly curved. Upper car- 

 nassial with a strong blade, the middle lobe conical, pointing back- 

 wards, the anterior lobe nearly obsolete; lower carnassial with a 



