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CANIS OCCIDENTALS, var. MEXICANUS. 



Mexican Lobo Wolf. 

 Omit Mancamu, GM. Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 71. 



SHA.W, Gen. Zool. I, 1800, 296. 



DESSC. Mamm. I, 1820, 199. 



FISCHER, Syn. 1829, 183. 



BDUAXDIERH, Pr. A. N. Sc. Ph. V, Feb. 1851, 157. 



SP. CH. Varied with grey and black. Neck maned more than usual. A black or dusky band encircling the muzzle. A 

 dusky stripe down the fore leg. 



For the description of a strongly marked specimen, (No. ffH, collected at Santa Cruz, So- 

 nora,) of this variety, I would refer to the report on the zoology of the United States and 

 Mexican Boundary Survey. 



The following varieties of the large American wolf I have not had an opportunity of 

 examining : * 



CANIS OCCIDENTALS, var. ATER. 



Black Wolf. 



Omit tycoon, HART.AS, F. Am. 1825, 126. 

 Ccant (Lupus) ater, RICH. F. B. A. I, 1829, 70. 



ACD. & BACH. N. A. Quad, n, 1851, 128 ; pi. Ixvii. 



This wolf, which is entirely black in color, according to Auduhon and Bachman, is found 

 most abundantly in Florida occasionally in Georgia and other southern States. It was for 

 merly common in Kentucky, and, according to Say, on the banks of the Missouri, where, how 

 ever, it is now rarely seen. 



CANIS OCCIDENTALS, var. EUFUS. 



Red Wolf. 



Oanu lupus, var. rvfut, Aro. & BACH. N. A. Quad, n, 1851, 240 ; pi. Izzzii. 



According to the above authority, this is the most common variety of wolf in Texas. Its 

 color is a mixed red and black above, lighter beneath. 



CANIS LATRANS, Say. 



Prairie Wolf. Coyote. 



Canit latrans, SAT, in Long's Exped. B. Mte. I, 1823, 168. 



HARLAH, F. A- 1825, 83. 



FISCHER, Synopsis, 1829, 183. 



RICH. F. B. A. I, 1829, 73 ; pi. iv. 



DOUGHTT'S Cabinet Nat. Hist. I, 1830, 73 ; pL viL 



MAXIM. Beise, H, 1841, 96. 



ACT>. & BACH. N. A. Quad, n, 1851, 150 ; pi. IxxL 

 Oanu ochropux, BSCHSCHOLTZ, Zool. Atlas, ra, 1829, 1 ; pi. xi. (California.) 



GRAY, Zool. Sulphur, 1844, 32 ; pL x. (California.) 

 Gmufnutror, WOODHOCTH, Pr. A. N. So. Ph. V, Oct. 1850, 147. IB. V, Feb. 1851, 157. IB. Sitgreaves' Exped. 



Zufii & Colorado B. 1853, 4. 

 " Lydtcut cajattii, HAKJC. SMITH, Nat. Lib. Dogs." 



This animal is intermediate in size between the fox and the wolf; resembling the former in 

 sharpness of muzzle, the latter in form and character of the tail. It is a true wolf, however, 

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