10. rSEUDALOPEX. 199 



10. PSEUDALOPEX. 



Tail elongate, reaching below the hocks. Pupil elliptical in the 

 daylight. Skull ^vitll a linear coronal ridge ; the upper tubercular 

 teeth taken together scarcely so long as, or very little longer than 

 the flesh-tooth. 



Pseudalopex, Biirmeister, Faun. Bras. pp. 24, 44; Gray, P. Z. S. 

 1868, p. 512. 



* The fore legs grey extertially; soles of the feet blackish hrotcn. 



1. Pseudalopex Azarae. (Agoua rachay.) B.M. 



Tubercular gTinders 3 ; front always largest. 



Canis Azarse, Pr. Max. Peitr. ii. p. 338 ; Ahbikl. t. ; Darwin, Zovl. 



Beagle, xIt. t. 7 ; Blaine. Osteogr. t. 4 (skull). 

 CanLs brasilieiisis, Schinz, Ctiv. Thierr. i. p. 222. 

 Vulpes Azarre, Gray, Vat. Mamm. B. M. p. 60; Gerrard, Cat. of 



Bones of Mamm. p. 87. 

 Agoua racliay, Azara, i. p. 317. 



Canis melanostomus, Wagner, Wiegm. Arch. 184-3, i. p. 358. 

 Canis (Pseudalopex) Azarse, Burm. Faun. Bras. pp. 24, 44, t. 28. f. 3, 



t. 29. f. 3. 

 Pseudalopex Azarfe, Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 512. 

 Cauls Azarre, Van der Hoeven, t. 1. f. 8. 

 Hah. South America : BrazU {Pr. Max.) ; Paraguay {Azara) ; 

 Patagonia {Dariuin). 



** The fore legs entirely red-yellow ; soles of the feet red-broivn. 



2. Pseudalopex griseus. B.M. 



Fur reddish-yellow-grcy ; legs red-yellow. Size small. 



Canis griseus, Gray, P. Z. S. iv. pp. 88, 123, t. 6 ; Mag. X. H. 1837, 



p. 578. 

 Vulpes griseus, Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of Mamm. p. 88. 

 Canis (Pseudalopex) griseus, Burmeister, Faun. Bras. pp. 28, 48, 



t. 25. 

 Pseudalopex griseus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 512. 



Hab. Patagonia {King). 



3. Pseudalopex mageUanicus. (Colpeo.) B.M. 



Fur fox-red ; back blackish. Large-sized. 

 Canis mageUanicus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 88 ; 3fag. A\ H. 1837, 



p. 578 ; Darwin, Zool. Beagle, x. t. 5 ; Burmeister, Faun. Bras. 



t. 6. f. 3. 

 Canis (Pseudalopex) mageUanicus, Burm. Fatin. Bras. pp. 24, 61 ; 



Beise La Plata, ii. p. 405 ; Wiegm. Arch. 18(>2, p. 329. 

 Pseudalopex mageUanicus, Gray, P. Z. S. 18G8, p. 512. 

 Canis caucrivorusi americaiuis, Burmeister, Fauna Bras. t. 27 (skull). 

 Vulpes mageUanicus, Gray, Mag. N. II. 1836, p. 578; List Mamm. 



B. M. p. (il : (lerrard, Cat. Bones of Mamm. p. 87. 

 ? Canis AzHr;c, ll'alerluni.se. 

 'f Colpeo, Canis colpaceus, Molina. 



