666 MERRIAM 



cranial and dental characters very close to fulvtts; not very close to 

 tnacrourus. 



Color. — Red phase : General color of head and upperparts straw 

 yellow ; face from nose to eyes dull yellowish fulvous ; rest of top of 

 head and base of ears pale straw yellow ; back golden yellowish-ful- 

 vous ; tail very pale ; black of ears and feet greatly restricted, that of 

 fore and hind feet confined rather narrowly to upper surface, and 

 mixed with pale fulvous. 



Black-cross phase : Top of nose grizzled brownish, sides of nose 

 and imperfect ring around eye dusky or blackish, grizzled with whitish ; 

 top of head yellowish white, the black underfur showing through ; 

 dorsal cross (back and shoulders) blackish, overlaid and nearly con- 

 cealed by yellowish white or buffy ; sides of neck, flanks, and post- 

 scapular region golden yellow ; distal two-thirds of ear black ; fore- 

 feet black, grizzled above elbow with whitish and yellowish ; hind feet 

 and legs grizzled dusky and buffy, becoming nearly black on top of 

 feet ; chin, throat, and band down middle of belly black or blackish ; 

 inner sides of thighs washed with dusky. Tail black mixed with buffy 

 and tipped with white [in some specimens nearly all black to white 

 tip]. Specimens from Mt. Hood and Ft. Klamath, Oregon, are 

 practically identical with those from Trout Lake, State of Washington. 



Skull. — Similar to that oi fulvus but bullae larger ; ist upper molar 

 (and usually upper carnassial) slightly larger. Compared with tna- 

 crourus the carnassials, ist upper molar (and usually the ad also), and 

 2d lower molar are smaller. The premolars also are usually smaller, 

 particularly the lower series. 



Measurements. — Average of three males from Mt. Adams, Wash- 

 ington : total length 1070; tail vertebrze 412 ; hind foot 17S. 



VULPES RUBRICOSA Bangs. Nova Scotia Fox. 



PI. XXXVII, fig. 3. 



Vulpes pennsylvaitica vafra Bangs, Proc. Biol. See. Washington, vol. xi, 



PP- 53-55. March 16, 1897 (name preoccupied). 

 Vulpes pcnnsylvanica rubricosa Bangs, Science, NS., vii, 271-272, Feb. 25, 

 1898. 



Type locality. — Digby, Nova Scotia. 



Range. — Nova Scotia — limits unknown. 



Characters. — Size rather large ; color deepest and darkest of all the 

 red foxes ; tail large, very broad and bushy, and deep fulvous. Ros- 

 trum and teeth larger than in fulvus. 



Color. — Upperparts deep rich and very dark fulvous ; black of fore 

 and hind feet reaching up a short distance on legs, but less extensive 



