•218 CALIFORNIA MAMMADS. 



die of April that were about a month old. There were three in 

 Ihis litter and this is probably about the usual number. 



Vulpes muticus Mkrriam. (Unarmed.) 



SAN JOAQUIN FOX. 



Similar to iiiacrotis but larger; hind foot and tail longer; 

 back browner; skull larger; rostrtmi much broader; teeth larger. 



Length about 950 mm. (37.50); tail vertebrae 350 (14); 

 hind foot 125 (5). 



Type locality, Tracy, San Joaquin Valley, California. 



So far as I know this Fox is found only in the San Joaquin 

 Valley. 



Vulpes necator Merriam. 



HIGH SIERRA FOX. 



Red pelage; face dull fulvous, strongly grizzled with whit- 

 ish; sides of nose dusky, grizzled with buffy; upper parts from 

 back of head to base of tail dark dull dusty fulvous, becoming 

 much paler on the sides where the whitish underfur shows through ; 

 black of fore feet reaching up on the upper surface of fore leg to 

 elbow; black of hind feet ending at or near tarsal joint, with only 

 slight traces on the outer side of leg; tail at base fulvous, becom- 

 ing buffy whitish and profusely mixed with long black hairs; 

 base with the usual black spot; tip white. Black^cross pelage; 

 back grizzled black and whitish or buffy; sides buffy; feet, legs 

 aid belly black; tail mainly black with white tip. 



Length about 965 mm. (38 inches) ; tail vertebrae 370 

 {14.50) ; hind foot 160 (6.30). 



Type locality, Whitney Meadows, Sierra Nevada, California. 



Known only from the high Sierra from 6,000 feet altitude 

 upward. 



Vulpes cascadensis ^Ierriam. 



CASCADE MOUNTAIN FOX. 



Red pelage ; general color of head and upper parts straw yel- 



