664 



MERRIAM 



Type locality. —\y<[^?,2i\.c\i Mts. bordering] Salt Lake Valley, Utah. 



Ra7ige. — JSIountains of Colorado, Utah, and Wyommg. 



Characters. — Size and general appearance oifulvus^ but tail ?nuch 

 longer ; hind feet larger ; black of feet and legs much less extensive. 



Color. ^ — Nose dull brownish fulvous, grizzled with buffy ; sides of 

 face between nose and eyes dusky, grizzled with whitish ; rest of face 

 mixed buffy or buffy fulvous and whitish ; back yellowish fulvous, 

 darkest on median line, palest on sides of neck and flanks ; outer sides 

 of legs dark reddish fulvous ; black of forefeet reaching up narrowly 

 nearly to elbow ; black of hind feet narrow and hardly reaching ankle. 

 Tail grizzled grayish buff mixed with black hairs, the black hairs on 

 upper side of base forming a broad blackish patch. Chin dusky ; 

 whitish of throat and breast darkened by underfur showing through. 



Skull. — Similar to that oi fiilvus, but bjillce much larger and rising 

 abruptly from basioccipital ; basioccipital narrower ; carnassials slightly 

 larger; ist upper molar decidedly larger. 



Measurements. — A young $ from Wind River Mts., Wyoming: 

 total length 1015 ; tail vertebrae 461 ; hind foot 172. 



VULPES NECATOR sp. nov. High Sierra Fox. 

 PI. XXXVI, fig. 2. 



Type from Whitney Meadows near Mt. Whitney, High Sierra, 

 Calif. (Altitude 9500 ft.) No. |f|-f|, 9 yg. ad., U. S. National Mu- 

 seum, Biological Survey Coll. Sept. i, 1891, A. K. Fisher. Orig. 

 no. 940. 



Range. — Southern or High Sierra, California. 



Characters. — A small fox oi Xhe ftilvzis group, resembling y^/Zz^e^^ 

 externally, but cranially most closely related to macrouriis. Tail small 

 as in fulvus (or smaller), differing widely from the big tail of mac- 

 rourus. 



Color. — Face dull fulvous, strongly grizzled with whitish ; sides of 

 nose dusky, grizzled with buffy ; upperparts from back of head to base 

 of tail dark dull rusty fulvous, becoming much paler on sides, where 

 the whitish underfur shows through ; black of forefeet reaching up on 

 upper surface of foreleg to elbow ; black of hind feet ending at or near 

 tarsal joint, with only slight traces on outer side of leg ; tail at base 

 fulvous, becoming buffy whitish and profusely mixed with long black 

 hairs ; base with the usual black spot ; tip white. 



A male from Atwell's Mill, East Fork Kaweah River, Tulare Co., 

 Calif(n-nia (alt. 6300 ft.), collected the last of March, is in the black- 



' From a male from Wind River Mts., Wyoming, August 28, 1893. 



