472 VULPES. 
Body rather short; legs short; tail long, more than half the length 
of the body; fur soft, hair long; muzzle elongate, tapering; ears mod- 
erate, erect: nasals not extending back to maxille; postorbital 
processes concave above; temporal crests nearly in contact. 
Fig. 86. VULPES MACROTIS. 
No. 15843 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Coll. 9s nat. size. 
476. macrotis (Vulpes), Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Iv, 1888, 
p. 136. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm.,rgot, p. 300. 
B1G-EARED Kit Fox. 
[ype locality. Riverside, San Bernardino County, California. 
Geogr. Distr. Lower California and States of Chihuahua and 
Sonora, Mexico, into southern California. 
