52 



THE MAGELLANIC DOG OR COLPEO. 



C.^M.S M.h;LLL.4.\J( I 6\ 



r^^i. mayrllamtctu, lirmr, l*r«c. 7dm\. ^-- '••w si. ,j M«|{ 



N«l. III.!.' IKSr, p SrM; W city II MS 



•Ilc»|tlr.' >' ; J. A. \V,iinrr, 



8n I • - \,„„ ,, ,, Wl ; Oijr, lli.i. 



H. 

 r«iiw (P$rMdaluprx \ magtilamiemt, Iturmrttlrr, Fauna Itrmvilini*. pp. t!l 



•t ' ><1 K< pubiiquc Argrtiliur, vul. in. 



|. 

 I'irtutahpet magrllamtnu, (inr. Pror. Zool. Soc. 1808. p. Sit; id. 



(•t ( 

 CrrJoefom mu^Uamit *. . . ....... J...... .rarr, rol. it. 



p. 'JW, pi . . 



Cams rmlpaetu, Molina, ( 4jm|H^(tiu d. I. hiat. oal. dpi KcKito dc Cliili, 



p. S;M); hI. Kmii aar I'bitt. i.ai. du Chili il'an*. 176} ), 



p. 271. 



Tins liaiiiiwiiuc niiiinal is n'|)rv*i-iitc<i iii our Naliond Collccttuii hy 

 lw«) skins froin TuTrn ticl Furgn, ami two ntlicr ikkins from Cliilr, with 

 several skulls niul skcK-toiiH. Like stj many other *|icciea of the ( anidn-. 

 It is evidently sulijivt to individual variatiuiis. pnilmlily due to bnbitually 

 ditferetit climnte^ or the change of the M-os'ins. The fur of iKilh the 

 s|»cciinens from the extreme south is much longer than tliat of those 

 from Chile, although the skulls of B|teeimenB from liotli localities arc 

 idike. 



The sjK-cies was first made known by the AoU- Molina, who, however, 

 iK'lieved it to Ik- the same s|>ccie.H as that di'scniM-d by us under the 

 name of C. aittarcticiu. In some resjiccls its haiiits a|i|Kiir to l»e 

 similar, for the Abbe tells us that he often met with it in the woods, 

 and that each tini'^hc did so, if he stood stdl, it would come towards 



