212 UROcyoN. 



Vulpes (Urocyon) littoralis Baird. 



Maiiiinal.s of North America, p. 143, pis. 1 and 35, fig. 2, 1857. 



= Urocyon littoralis (Baird). See Merriani, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., IV, j). ]:!5, 

 FtO)rnary 18, 1888. 



llPf. Skill mid skull. Adult. San Miguel Island, Santa Harhara 

 Islands, California. January, 185(5. Collected b}' Lieut. W. P. 

 Trowliridge, U. S. A. Catalogued Februar}- 18, 1856. 



Specimen was remade in January, 1902, into a modern study skin, and is in 

 good condition, except a few slight imperfections about head. Skull perfect, 

 except for a V-shaped piece of l)one out of basioccipital. Second and third left 

 upper incisors and last left upper molar are missing. 



Baird listed two specimens, each designated by number, the one mentioned 

 above, and No. Jlfl. The latter is an alcoholii- specimen, with skull n-moved. 

 The alcoholic specimen itself can not now be found. No. iJC;} is regarded as the 

 type because on Plate 35 of Baird's Mammals, the skull. No. 2154, is figured. 



Urocyon parvidens Miller. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, p. 276, July 2(5, 1899. 



sifli- Skin and skull. Adult male, somewhat young-. Morida, 

 Yucatan, Mexico. Collected b}^ Dr. A. Schott. Original number 

 385. Skin catalogued in 1873; skull, May 4, 1899. 



Specimen made into a modern study skin and skull removed May, 1S99. Skin 

 in good condition; skull perfect except that V)oth upper canines are broken off 

 nearly to the alveoli, and foramen magnum has been slightly enlarged. 



Urocyon littoralis santacruzae Merriani. Biological Survey coll. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVI, p. 75, May 29, 1903. 



Htt!- Skin and skull. Adult female. Saiitii Cruz Island, Santa 

 Barliara Islands, California. July 11, 1892. Collected by C. P. 

 Streator. Original number 1914, 



Well-made skin in good condition: skull perfect, excejit for broken right u})per 

 canine. 



Urocyon cinereoargenteus texensis Mearns. 



I'nliMiinary Diagnoses of New .Mammals of thi'(ienera Lynx, Urocyon, Spilogale 

 and IMephitis, from the Mexican Boundary Line, p. 2, January 12, 1897. 

 ( Hei)nnted in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XX, No. 112(), p. 459, December 24, 1897.) 



j'lV'ii- Adult skin and skull. San Pedro, near Eagle Pass, Texas. 

 January, 1851. Collected by Dr. A. Schott, Mexican Boundary 

 Survey, under Lieut. W. H. Emory, U. S. A. Catalogued JNIarch 

 31, 1853. 



Siiecimen has been made into a mfxU'rn study skin in good condition. All 

 parts of the skull j)08terior to the tooth rows have ])een cut away; anterior parts 

 perfect. 



