CANIS. VULPES. 471 
475. mexicanus (Canis), Linn., Syst. Nat., 1, 1766, p. 60. 
MEXICAN TIMBER Wo LF. Lobo in Spanish America. 
Type locality. Mexico. 
Geogr. Distr. States of Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico; range 
unknown. 
Genl. Char. Size large; tail longer than half the body without 
head; prevailing hues clouded yellow, white, and black. 
Color. Nose buff on sides, grizzled on top; face and chin mixed 
black and white; sides of face gray; back black; hind part of neck 
grayish white; sides and under parts buffy white; throat and under 
parts of neck dark gray and white in patches; outer side of limbs rich 
buff, inner side white; tail above mixed black and white, beneath 
white, tip black; feet pale yellowish white; ears deep buff, the tips 
grizzled black and buff. 
Measurements. Total length, 1580; tail to end of hairs, 470 
(skin). Skull: occipito-nasal length, 226; Hensel, 213.5; zygomatic 
breadth, 126.5; mastoid breadth, 74.5; median length of nasals, 73; 
from alveolus of incisor to palatal arch, 119; postpalatal length, 95; 
crown of upper sectorial, 26.5; length of lower jaw, 183; height at 
coronoid process, 72; length of lower sectorial, crown, 29. 
Foxes, with their pointed noses and long bushy tails, are familiar 
animals to most persons. The very shape of the head gives these 
creatures that aspect of cunning and sagacity for which they are 
eminently noted. Foxes are fond of solitude, and live alone in a 
burrow which each individual has dug for himself or appropriated by 
force from some other animal, the sufferer being frequently the 
badger. Sometimes a family may inhabit a single burrow, the dog 
Fox remaining with the mother after the cubs are born, and woe to 
the occupants of the hen coops in their vicinity while they remain in 
residence. Two genera of Foxes are recognized in North America, 
Urocyon and Vulpes, distinguished by the presence or absence of a 
hidden stiff-haired mane in the tail, and by some cranial characters. 
88. Vulpes. 
| (2 geese Se M2 = 40. 
33" D1’ ee 
Vulpes *Briss. Reg. Anim., 1758, p. 239. Type Canis vulpes 
Linneus. Frisch. Natur. Syst. vierfiiss. Thiere, in Tab., Gen. 
1775: 
Leucocyon Gray, Proc. Zodl. Soc., 1868, p. 521. 
*Should Brisson not be an authority for genera, then Frisch takes prece- 
dence for Vulpes. 
