Color. Face, top of head and base of ears straw yellow; upper 

 parts golden yellow, or pale yellowish fulvous, buffy white posteriorly 

 and grizzled on hind back: fore and hind legs red: black on fore feet 

 reaching half way between wrist and elbow; black on hind feet end- 

 ing at ankle. Tail like back at base, rest buffy, tip white, black hairs 

 intermixed. 



Measurements. -'Type. Total length in flesh, i.i 17: tail verte- 

 brae (skin), 420; hind foot (skin), 170; ear from anterior base (skin), 

 gS." (Merriam 1. c.) 



460. aa. Vulpes necator. Merr., Wash. Acad. Scien., 1900, p. 664. 



Tyfe loia/ity. Whitney Meadows near Mt. Whitney, California. 



Geogr. Distr. Southern or High Sierra. California. 



Genl. Char. Like V. pennsylvanUa, but nose darker: black on 

 legs restricted; back redder and duller: ground color of tail buffy. 

 Skull: rostrum more slender; molars larger and heavier. 



Color. Face dull fulvous grizzled with whitish; sides of nose 

 dusky grizzled with buffj- ; upper parts rustj- fulvous, sides paler; 

 black on fore feet reaching to elbow; black on hind feet to tarsal 

 joint; tail fulvous at base, then buffy whitish mixed with black hairs; 

 black spot at base, tip white. 



Measurements. Type. Total length, 930; tail vertebra^, 345: 

 hind foot. 150. (ex Merriam 1. c.) 



460. aaa. Vulpes cascadensi5. Merr.. Wash. Acad. Scien., 1900, 

 p. 665. 



Type locality. Trout Lake, base of Mt. .\dams. Cascade Range. 

 Washington. 



Geogr. Distr. Cascade Range in Oregon and Washington and 

 northern Sierra Nevada in California. 



Genl. Char. Size small, tail short. What should be the red 

 pelage is yellow. 



Color. General color of head and upper parts straw yellow, nose 

 to eyes yellowish fulvous, top of head and base of ears pale straw 

 yellow: back golden yellowish fulvous: tail pale; black on ears and 

 feet restricted and mixed with pale fulvous on latter. 



Black-Cross Phase. "Top of nose grizzled brownish; sides of 

 nose and imperfect ring around eye dusky or blackish grizzled with 

 whitish; top of head yellowish white, the black under fur showing 

 through; dorsal cross (back and shoulders) blackish, overlaid and 

 nearly concealed by yellowish white or buffy; sides of neck, flanks 

 and post-scapular region golden yellow ; distal two-thirds of ear 

 black: fore feet black, grizzled above elbow with whitish and yellow- 

 ish; hind feet and legs grizzled dusky and buffy, becoming nearly 



