MAMMALS CAN I DAE CANIS OCCIDENTALS. 



Ill 



the hairs ; legs, belly, and lower parts of the body, unmixed whitish, 

 stripe on the fore legs of C. lupus is not found in this species. 



The dark longitudinal 



" A specimen of this wolf, killed at Fort Clark, and reduced by hunger, weighed 58 pounds, 

 and the penis bone was 4" 7"' long. 



" The varying wolf brings forth four to nine young in April, in its burrow." 



List of specimens. 



CANIS OCCIDENT ALIS, var. NUBILUS. 



Dusky Wolf. 



Cants nubilus, SAY, in Long's Exped. R. Mts. I, 1823, 168. 

 HAH i. AK. Fauna Amer. 1825, 84. 

 FISCHER, Synopsis, 1829, 183. 

 DOUGHTY 's Cabinet Nat. Hist. II, 1832, 265 ; plate xxiii. 



CH. Color, light sooty, or plumbeous brown. 



The only perfect specimen of this wolf before me is rather small, and otherwise not in very 

 good condition. It is about the size of a pointer dog. The muzzle is long and acute ; the width 

 between the eyes about one and three-quarter inches ; the distance from muzzle to eyes, 



