Color. Muzzle pale fulvous, top of head gra}' and bufl; ears and 

 nape ochraceous buff; upper parts huffy mixed with black; under 

 parts whitish; ruff conspicuously black tipped; outer side of fore legs 

 bright buff, pale on inner side, and on fore feet; outer side of hind legs 

 and feet huffy ocliraceous; inner side of hind leg and upper surface 

 of hind foot white; under side of tail ochraceous, white basally, hairs 

 of distal half tipped with black; tip of tail black. 



Measiirements. Total length, 1052; tail vertebra', 300: hind 

 foot, 179. 



458. ochropus. (Canis), Eschsch. Zool., Atlas, iii, 1S29, pp. 1-2, 

 pi. II. 



Type locality. California. 



Geogr. Distr. San Joaquin Valley, California. 



Genl. Char. Similar to C. lairans, but smaller, darker; and more 

 highly colored; ears larger; skull and teeth smaller. 



Color. Muzzle grizzled cinnamon rufous; top of head grayish 

 fulvous, rest of upper parts buffy ochraceous mixed with black; under 

 parts whitish, belly tinged with huff; grizzled hairs of ruff tipped with 

 black, sometimes going on to breast as in C. estor and C. mcarnsi; 

 fore and hind legs and feet fulvous all round, paler on inner side, and 

 verj' deep on outer side of hind leg; upper side of fore leg strongly 

 marked with black; outer side of thighs with black tipped hairs; tail 

 beneath pale fulvous, white basally, tipped and edged with black; 

 terminal third of under side hairs black tipped; extreme tip often 

 white. 



Measurements. Total length, 11 10; tail vertebrae, 295; hind 

 foot, 180.* 



73. Viilpes. 

 I. |=_3; C. '=^; p. i=-n M. ?^= 42. 



3—3' "-1 4-4' 3-3 ^ 



Vulpes, Briss., Reg. Anim., 1758, p. 239. 



Ltucocyon, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1868, p. 521. 



Body rather short; legs short; tail long, bushy, more than half 

 the length of body, fur soft, hair long; muzzle elongated, tapering; 

 ears moderate, erect; nasals not extending back to maxillaries; 

 postorbital processes above concave; temporal crests nearly in con- 

 tact. 



A. Vulpes. 

 459. harrimani. {Vulpes), Merr., Proc. Wash. Acad. Scien., 1900, 

 p. 14. 



Type locality. Kadiak Island, Alaska. 



* It is difficult to distinguish tlicsu varieties of tiic Coyote hy any descriptioQ, and still more 

 so by the skins or skulls. 



