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CARNIVORA 



not markedly tawny ; white of throat not extending to cheeks. 

 The few skulls examined agree with Asiatic specimens in having 

 the outer cusps of m^ moderately large, the paracone with trans- 

 verse diameter of base about equal to width of large flattened 

 jiortion of crown. 



Measurements. — For cranial measurements see Table, j). 316. 



Specimens examined. — Pour skulls, from the following localities : — 

 Sweden: No exact locality, 2 (U.S.N.M.). 

 Russia: No exact locality, 1 (U.S.N.M.). 

 Italy : Near SasscUo, Liguria, 1 (Genoa). 



Canis lupus signatus Cabrera. 



1907. Canis lupus signatus Cabrera, Bol. Real Soc. Espaii. Hist. Nat., 



Madrid, vii, p. 195. 

 1910. Canis htpus signatus Trouessart, Fauue Mamm. d'Europe, p. 91. 



Ti/2)e localitjj. — Escorial, Madrid, Spain. 



Geogrnjjhical distrihution. — Central Spain. 



Characters. — Size and general appearance as in Canis Inpns 

 lupus ; colour a more tawny brown than in the northern animal, 

 particularly on muzzle ; white of throat extending unintei'iuptedly 

 to cheeks.* 



Measurements. — Type (adult male), from Cabrera : head and 

 body, 1230 ; tail, 400 ; hind foot, 265 ; ear, 125. Young adult 

 male and female from Province of Burgos, Spain : head and 

 body, 1130 and 1180 ; tail, 350 and 380 ; hind foot, 225 and 220 ; 

 ear 120 and 115. For cranial measurements see Table, p. 316. 



Specimens examined. — One from Seville, Spain, and two from Province 

 of Burgos, Spain. 



liemarhs. — Tn dentition the Seville specimen differs from all 

 the other Old World wolves with which I have compared it in 

 the unusual development of the outer cusps of the upper molars. 

 The transverse diameter of paracone in m} conspicuously exceeds 

 width of the small inner 2:)ortion of tooth. Mr. Cabrera informs 

 me that the tyj^e shows much the same peculiarities. This 

 character is also present, though less pronounced, in the two 

 skulls from Burgos, which further differ from northern specimens 

 in the smaller size and more glol)ular form of the auditory 

 bulL-e. 



i. Seville, Spain. (.1. Rjiiz.) Lord Lilford (p). 95. .3. 3. G. 



6,9. Riocabado, Bm-gos. Hon. N. C. Roths- 11. 10. 5. 1-2. 



(Rev. S. Gonzalez.) child (p). 



* In the Burgos specimens the colour is not unusually tawny : back 

 and sides a coarse inixture of black, whitish, ochraceous-buff, and drab grey 

 (underfur), the black and whitish most conspicuous along back, the 

 ochraceous-buff ou legs and feet (clear and unmixed on latter) ; ear 

 ochraceous-rufous on outer side (darker and duller at tip), pallid 

 ochraceous-buff on inner surface ; throat and lower half of cheeks the same 

 pallid ochraceous-buff ; chin and interramia blackish. 



