^52- latrans. {Cam's), Say, Long's Exped. Rocky Mts., i, 1S23, 

 p. 168. 



7'y/>e locality. Council Bluffs, Iowa. 



Gfogr. Distr. Northern valley of the Mississippi, westwards on 

 northern edge of plains to Rocky Mountains in Alberta Province. 



Genl. Char. Size large, color pale; premolar and carnassial 

 teeth very large and greatly swollen. 



Color. Muzzle pale fulvous sprinkled with gray and black; top 

 of head grizzled gray; ears deep fulvous, sprinkled with black; upper 

 parts buffy gray and black; under parts and upper lip whitish; throat 

 hairs tipped with blackish; color grizzled, fore legs and feet dirty 

 white, clay color on outer side; hind legs and feet fulvous on outer 

 side, white on inner and on top of feet; tail tipped with black; under- 

 neath white basally, pale fulvous on distal half, tipped and edged 

 with black. 



Measureiiunts. Total length, 1,219; tail vertebra-, 394; hind 

 foot, 179. 



453. nebracensis. {Ciim's), Merr., Science, 1898, p. 782. 



pallidits., Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1897, p. 24 (preoccupied). 



Type locality. Johnstown, Brown County, Nebraska. 



Geogr. Distr. Great Plains, eastern Colorado to Canada. 



Genl. Char. Like C. latrans, but paler; skull and teeth smaller. 



Color. Muzzle ochraceous buff; top of head grizzled grayish 

 tinged with buff; ears buff; upper parts buffy white, mixed with black; 

 under parts white; no distinct collar; fore and hind legs and feet 

 soiled white tinged with buff on outer side of fore, and pale fulvous 

 on hind, legs; tail pale, under side white basally, then buff and tipped 

 with black. 



Measurements. Smaller than C. latrans, hind foot, (not in flesh), 

 77. Basal length of skull, 177; of Hensel, 173: zygomatic breadth, 

 100; palatal length, 93; mastoid breadth, 63.5; length of crown of 

 upper carnassial tooth, 21. 



^54. lestes. {Cants), Merr. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1897, p. 25. 



Type locality. Togabe Mountains near Cloverdale, Nevada. 



Geogr. Distr. Southern British Columbia through Washington 

 and Oregon to the plateau of northern Arizona and New Mexico, and 

 to Mexican boundarj-. 



Genl. Char. Size medium; ears and tail large; color similar to 

 C. latrans; skull and teeth medium. 



Color. Muzzle pale cinnamon rufous; top of head grizzled gray 

 and ochraceous, crown, nape and ears fulvous; rest of upper parts 

 grayish buffy mixed with black; under parts whitish tinged with buff 



