NORTH AMERICAN RECENT MAMMAI^. 151 



*Canis latrans Say. 



1823. Canis latrans Say, Long's Exped. Rocky Mts., vol. 1, p. 

 168. 



1885. Canis latrans True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis., vol. 7 (1884), 

 p. 610. 1885. (Part.) 



Type Locality. — Engineer Cantonment, near present town of 

 Blair, Washington County, Nebraska. (Not Council Bluffs, 

 Pottawattamie County, Iowa.) 



Range. — Humid prairies and bordering woodlands of the north- 

 ern Mississippi Valley, in Iowa and Minnesota, and northern 

 edge of plains westward to the base of the Rocky Mountains 

 in the Province of Alberta. 



t*Canis nebracensis nebracensis Merriam. 



1897. Canis pallidus Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 11, p. 24. March 15, 1897. (Not of Riippell, 1826.) 



1898. Canis nebracensis Merrian, Science, n. s., vol. 8, p. 782. 

 December 2, 1898. (Substitute for 'pallidus Merriam.) 



Type Locality. — Johnstown, Brown County, Nebraska. 

 Range. — Arid plains from eastern Colorado to Montana and 

 Assiniboia. 



t*Canis nebracensis texensis Bailey. 



1897. Canis frustror Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 11, p. 26. March 15, 1897. (Not of Woodhouse, 1851.) 



1905. Canis nebracensis texensis Bailey, North Amer. Fauna, 

 No. 25, p. 175. October 24, 1905. 



Type Locality. — Forty-five miles southwest of Corpus Christi, 

 Nueces County, Texas. 



Range. — Gulf region of Texas from Nueces Bay northward; 

 probably throughout the lower Sonoran area of Texas, Okla- 

 homa, and Indian Territory. 



t*Canis lestes Merriam, 



1897. Canis lestes Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 

 11, p. 25. March 15, 1897. 



Type Locality. — Toyabe Mountains, near Cloverdale, Nye 

 County, Nevada. 



Range. — Transition zone from the dry interior of southern Brit- 

 ish Columbia, Washington, and Oregon southward over the 

 higher lands of the Great Basin, the Sierra Nevada, and the 

 Rocky Mountains to the plateau of northern xirizona, and 

 thence along the continental divide to the Mexican boundary. 



