CANIS. 469 
throat and ventral region only slightly suffused with pale fulvous 
instead of buffy ochraceous, and fore and hind legs and feet not bright 
orange fulvous all around, but fore legs posteriorly, and hind legs and 
feet anteriorly pale fulvous or pale yellowish white, as in cagottis.”’ 
Measurements. ‘‘Type, total length, 1143; head and body, 838; 
tail vertebre, 305; hind foot, 178. Skull: total length, 190; Hensel, 
163; palatal length, 89; zygomatic breadth, 93; mastoid breadth, 59; 
length of crown of upper carnassial, 19.3.’ (Allen, 1. c.) 
472. microdon (Canis), Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., x1, 1897, p. 29. 
TAMAULIPAS COYOTE. 
Type locality. Mier, on the Rio Grande, State of Tamaulipas, 
Mexico. 
Geogr. Distr. State of Tamaulipas, Mexico; range unknown. 
Genl. Char. Size small; colors dark. 
Color. Upper parts buffy ochraceous and black; nose rufous; 
ears fulvous; crown grayish ochraceous; under parts whitish; middle 
of belly buffy and black; legs and feet fulvous, whitish on inner side 
of legs; tail above like back, beneath whitish at base, rest pale ful- 
vous, with black-tipped hairs. 
Measurements. Total length, 1070; tail vertebra, 320; hind foot, 
186. Skull: basal length, 161; Hensel, 158; zygomatic breadth, 93.5; 
palatal length, 84; mastoid breadth, 57; crown of upper sectorial, 16.5. 
473. estor (Canis), Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., x1, 1897, p. 31. 
NOLAND’s RANCH COYOTE. 
Type locality. Noland’s Ranch, San Juan River, San Juan 
County, Utah. 
Geogr. Distr. Lower California, Mexico, north to the deserts of 
eastern California, Nevada, and Utah. 
Genl. Char. Size small; color pale; carnassial and molar teeth small. 
Color. Muzzle pale fulvous; top of head gray and buff; ears and 
nape ochraceous buff; upper parts buffy mixed with black; under 
parts whitish; ruff conspicuously black-tipped; outer side of fore legs 
bright buff, pale on inner side and on fore feet; outer side of hind legs 
and feet buffy ochraceous; inner side of hind leg and upper surface of 
hind foot white; under side of tail ochraceous, white basally, hairs of 
distal half tipped with black; tip of tail black. 
Measurements. Total length, 1052; tail vertebre, 300; hind foot, 
179. Skull: basal length, 159; Hensel, 155; zygomatic breadth, 89; 
mastoid breadth, 57; palatal length, 84: upper sectorial, crown, 17.2. 
474. ochropus (Canis), Eschsch., Zool. Atlas, 111, 1829, pp. 1-2, pl. I. 
Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p, 303. 
