188 CANID.Ti. 



Loup de Mexique, Uiiffun, N. II. xv. p. 141). 



Mexican Wolf, Pcnn. 



Cuetlachti, Fei-nand. N. Iliap. p. 7. 



Hab. Mexico (Hernand.) ; Santa Cruz ; Sonora. 



Var. 3. ater. Black Wolf. BM. 



Forehead of skull concave in the central line ; internal nostrils 

 narrow, parallel. 



Canis lycaon, Harlmi, Fauna Amer. p. 126, 1828. 



Canis lupus ater, Rich. F. Bor.-Am. i. p. 70; Ami. ^ £ach/n. N. A. 



Quad. p. 126, t. . f. 7, 1851. 

 Canis occidentalis, var. ater, S. Baird, Jilamm. N, A. p. 113. (Skull 



165 c, B.M.) 



Hah. Florida; Georgia. 



Var. 4. rufus. 



Mixed red and black above, lighter beneath. 



Canis lupus, var. rufus. And. ^ Bachm. N. A. Quad. ii. p. 240, t. 82, 



1851. 

 Canis occidentalis, var. rufus, S. Baird, Mumm. N. A. p. 113. 



Hah. Texas. 



4. Lupus aureus. (Jackal.) B.M. 



Skull — nose sloping on the sides, broad in front of orbits. The 

 sectorial tooth is placed obliquely in respect to the line of the pre- 

 molars and tubercular grinders. 



Canis aureus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 59 ; Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. i. p. 39, 



t. 3 ; Gray, Cat. 3Iamm. B.M. p. 58 ; F. Cur. Mamm. Lith. t. ; 



Blainv. Osteogr. t.- 4 (skuU, var. barbarus), t. 6 (var. mareoticus, 



skull rather wider). 

 Canis barbarus, Shaw, Zool. i. p. _54. 

 Barbary Jackal, Pennant, Quad. i. p. 260. 

 Lupus aureus, Kampf. Ama-n. Exot. p. 413, t. 407. f. 3 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 



1868, p. 504. 

 Canis micrurus, Reichenbach. 

 Thos, Pli7iy. 



Chacal adive, Buffon, H. N. xiii. p. 255, Supp. ni. t. 16. 

 Schakall, S. G. Gmelin, Reise, iii. p. 80, 1. 13 : Olildenst. in Nov. 



Com. Petrop. xx. p. 449, 1. 10. 

 Jackal, Penn., Slum. 



Hah. India ; Ceylon (Reid). 



The several skulls in the British Museum differ from each other. 

 163 c is very wide at the zygomatic arches. Length 5 inches 4 lines, ' 

 width 3 inches 3 lines. The aperture of the internal nostril is wide, 

 8 lines, much wider than in other skulls. The skull of a Jackal from 

 Barbary, sent to the Zoological Gardens by E. W. Dnimmond Esq., 

 163 (?:— length 5 inches 1 lino, width 3 inches 1 line; aperture of 

 internal nostril 6 lines. 



163 c. Nepaul. Presented by B. Hodgson, Esq. 



A skeleton with skull in the British Museum, 163 k (Canis aureus, 

 part., Gerrard), from the Zoological Gardens is peculiar. Length 



