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C3 From eastern California to Utah C. eslor. 



Cj In the San Joaquin \'alley C ochropiis. 



C. lycaon Schreber (C occidentalis Richardson). Gray wolf. 

 Color gray, mixed with blackish or tawny; length 1,465 mm.; tail 405 

 mm.; hind foot 225 mm.: eastern Canada and northeastern United 

 States; exterminated, except towards the north. 



C. floridanus Miller. Southern wolf. Similar to C. lycaon, but 

 much darker; color black above, buffy gray faintly clouded on the sides 

 and beneath; muzzle and legs yellowish: Florida. 



C. nubilus Say. Gray wolf of the plains; lobo; timber wolf. Color 

 gray, varying to blackish on the back and tawny on the belly; length 

 males 1,600 mm.; tail 400 mm.; weight about 100 lbs. or more: the interior 

 States and central Canada; southward to Nebraska and Colorado; 

 exterminated in well settled districts, but common in many places in 

 the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. 



C. Jrustror Woodhouse. American jackal. Color gray, clouded 

 with black; length 1,143 mm.; tail 355 mm.; hind foot 180 mm.: Texas 

 and Oklahoma. 



C. gigas Townsend. Northwest timber wolf. Size large; tail very 

 short; color black above, reddish brown on the sides, cinereous below: 

 region of Puget Sound. 



C. rufus Audubon and Bachman. Texas red wolf. Color reddish 

 brown mixed with irregular patches of black; upper surface and end of 

 tail black; length 1,200 mm.; tail 325 mm.; form slender; fur smooth: 

 southwestern Texas. 



C. latrans Say. Coyote; prairie wolf. Color fulvous or grayish, 

 clouded with black; tail tipped with black; muzzle sharp; length 1,250 

 mm.; tail 394 mm,; hind foot 179 mm.; weight up to 35 lbs.: humid 

 prairies and woodlands of northern Mississippi Valley, in Iowa and 

 Minnesota and westward to the Rockies in Alberta. 



C. nehracensis Merriam. Plains coyote. Similar to C. latrans. but 

 a little smaller and paler; upper parts whitish, sparingly mixed with 

 black hairs; under parts white: Great Plains from Canada to Texas. 



Subspecies of C. nehracensis 



C. n. nehracensis Merr. Nebraska and eastern Colorado to Montana 

 and Canada. 



C. n. texensis Bailey. Color darker and brighter: Texas and 

 Oklahoma. 



C. lestes ]Merr. Mountain coyote. Size large, but somewhat 

 smaller than C. latrans; color similar but paler; ears and tail large: high- 



