VULPES. 473 
Genl. Char. Size small; ears long, broad; muzzle, legs, and tail 
long and slender. 
Color. Above grizzled gray, darkest on back; sides, pectoral 
band, and upper parts of limbs pale fulvous; chin and throat white; 
under parts mixed white and buff; tail like back, terminal fourth 
black; ear pale fulvous and iron gray, the margin white. 
Fic. LXIIl. VULPES MACROTIS. BIG-EARED KIT Fox. 
Measurements. Total length, 850; tail vertebrz, 290; hind foot, 
110; ear from crown, 68. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 103; greatest 
zygomatic breadth, 58.2; mastoid breadth, 38.7; interorbital con- 
striction, 19.8; across postorbital processes, 26.3; palatal length, 55.7; 
length of nasals, 40; length of upper tooth row, 51.7; length of lower 
jaw, 83.8; height at coronoid process, 27; length of lower tooth 
row, 57.8. 
The Gray Foxes, included in the present genus, are represented in 
North America by a number of species and races varying considerably 
in size, the smallest not being more than half that of the well-known 
eastern Gray Fox. They are very handsome animals, but not pos- 
sessed of the cunning equal to that of the Red Fox, and in the struggle 
for existence seem, in their diminishing numbers, to be giving way to 
their more fit relative. 
