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THE COLISHE. 



CANIS VIRGINIJXUS. 



Canis lirginiamts, Schreber's Saugthicrc, Tlieil iii. p. 585, plate 92 b ; 

 Erxlcbcn, Syst. Reg. Anim. p. 567 (quoted from Schreber) 

 (1777); Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 71 (1788) ; Dcsmarest, 

 Mammalogie, p. 203 (1820) ; Harlan, Fauna Americana, 

 p. 89 (1825); Richardson, Fauna Borcali-Amcr. p. 96 

 (1829). 



Canis cinereo-arr/eiifatiis, Erxlelx-n, op. cit. p. ')C)7 ; Gmelin, op. cit. p. 74 ; 

 Harlan, op. cit. p. 90 ; Hamilton Smith, Jardiue's Nat. 

 Library, vol. x. p. 254, pi. 23. 



Canis f/riseiis, Roddacrt, Elcnchus Anim. i. p. 97 (1784-). 



Vulpes virginianns, Dc Kay, Nat. Hist. New York, p. 45, pi. 7. fig. 2 

 (1812) ; Audubon and Bachman, Quadrupeds of N. Amer. 

 p. 162, pi. 21 (1852) ; Baird, Mammals of N. Amer. p. 138 

 (1857); id. U.S. Mexican Boundary, ii. p. 16 (1858); Allen, 

 Bull. Mus.ofComp. Zool. Harvard Coll. vol. i. p. 160(1863); 

 Alston, Biologia Ccntrali-Americana, ^lamm. p. 67 (1880). 



Vulpes Uttoralis, Baird, Mamm. of N. Amer. p. 143 (1857). 



Urocijon (as a subgenus), Baird, Mamm. of N. Amer. p. 121 (1857). 



Urocyon virginianus, (Jray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 522; id. Catalogue 

 of Carnivorous Mammalia, p. 209 (1869); Frantzius, Archiv 

 f. Naturgcsch. Jahrg. xxxv. Bd. i. p. 284 (1869) ; Allen, 

 Bulletin U.S. Geolog. Survey, vol. ii. p. 320 (1876). 



Urocyon Uttoralis, Gray, op. cit. 



Oztuhua, Hernandez, De Quad. Nov. Hisp. fol. 6, caput xvi. (1651). 



Grey Fox, Catesby's Nat. Hist, of Carolina, ii. p. 78 (1731). 



Zorro of the Mexicans, Baird, Rep. U.S. Mexican Boundary, p. 17. 



Tigrilloof the Costa-Ricans, Frantzius, loe. cit. 



Colishd of the Apaches, Baird, U.S. Mexican Boundary, ii. p. 17. 



Tuis exceedingly distinct species has been commonly spoken of as the 

 " Grey Fox " or the " Virginian Fox ; " but as it is a widely different 

 animal from the true fox, we have preferred to denote it by a native 



