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CARNIVORA 



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

 The few skulls examined agree with Asiatic specimens in having 

 the outer cusps of 7u^ moderately large, the iiaracone with trans- 

 verse diameter of base about equal to width of large flattened 

 portion of crown. 



Measurements. — For cranial measurements see Table, p. 316. 



Speciincns examined. — Four 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 Sassello, Liguria, 1 (Genoa). 



Canis lupus signatus Cabrera. 



1907. Canis lupus signatii.s Cabrera, Bol. Real Soc. Espafi. Hist. Nat., 



Madrid, vii, p. 195. 

 1910. Canis lupus signahis Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 91. 



Ttjpe locality. — Escorial, Madrid, Spain. 



Geographical distrihution. — Central Spain. 



Characters. — Size and general appearance as in Canis lupus 

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

 particularly on muzzle ; white of throat extending uninterruptedly 

 to cheeks.* 



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

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

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

 body, 1130 and 1180 ; tail, 350 and 380 ; hindfoot, 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. 



Itemarhs. — In 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)- conspiciiously exceeds 

 width of the small inner portion of tooth. Mr. Cabrera informs 

 me that the type 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 globular form of the auditory 

 bulhe. 



i. Seville, Spain. {A. Ruiz.) Lord Lilford (p). 95. .3. 3. G. 



i, 9. Riocabado, Burgos. Hon. N. C. Roths- 11. 10. 5. 1-2. 



[Ecv. S. Gonzalez.) child (p). 



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

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

 (underfur), the black and whitish most consi^icuous along back, the 

 ochraceous-buff on 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. 



