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specimens from all parts of the far west have been usually re- 

 ferred. Additional specimens from the type locality are not at 

 hand ; hence I have been obliged to characterize the species 

 from specimens collected in other parts of the Rocky Mountains 

 — from Colorado and Wyoming. Comparison of the scanty ma- 

 terial available from the Rocky Mountain region with corre- 

 sponding specimens from the Great Plains, the Cascade Range 

 in Oregon and Washington, and the High Sierra in California, 

 has led me to recognize as distinct three additional species, 

 heretofore confounded under macroiirtis. 



Of the Alaska red foxes little is known and only one species 

 has been described — the large Kadiak Island species, Vulpes 

 harrtmani, recently published by me in these Proceedings.^ 

 Two others from Alaska, one from British Columbia, and one 

 from Labrador are here added to our fauna. 



Mr. Bangs has kindly loaned me his types and other speci- 

 mens from Labrador, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia, thus 

 enabling me to compare these forms directly with those from 

 Alaska and the northern United States. Good skins with skulls 

 are^still needed from various parts of Alaska, the Rocky Moun- 

 tain region, and the southern United States. 



As a result of the present study, twelve species and sub- 

 species are recognized. These, with their type localities, are : 



Vulpes fiihnis Desmarest Virginia. 



macrouriis Baird Wasatch Mountains, Utah. 



necator sp. nov. Southern High Sierra, Calif. 



cascadensis sp. nov. Mt. Adams, Washington. 



rubricosa Bangs Nova Scotia. 



rubricosa bangsi subsp. nov. Labrador. 



delctrix Bangs Newfoundland. 



alascensis sp. nov. Lower Yukon, Alaska. 

 alascensis abieiorum suhsp. nov. Stuart Lake, British Columbia. 



kenaiensis sp. nov. Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. 



harnmatii Merriam Kadiak Island, Alaska. 



regalis sp. nov. Elk River, Minn. 



Of these, the last three ( regalis^ harrimaniy and kenaiensis ) 

 are very large — probably double the bulk of the common east- 

 ern red fox ; abietorum is only slightly smaller ; alascensis is 

 still slightly smaller and hardly larger than dcletrixy rubricosa^ 



Troc. Wasli. Acad. Sci., ii, pp. 14-15, March 14, 1900. 



