various Soiit/i-Ameriran Mamwuls. 357 



I/ab. Moon Mountains, 8. of British Giiiana. 



Ti/pe. Adult female. B.M. no. 11.6.7.24. Original 

 nuinher Ua. Presented hj F. V. McConnell, Esq. 



This little dog is no doubt most nearlj- allied to its geoo-ra- 

 pliical neighbour C. t. savannarum, from the Kanulcu lAIoiiii- 

 taiiis, just further north, but is readily distinguishable by its 

 still smaller size. The typical specimens of the two forms 

 are both females, so that the question of sex does not arise. 

 The skull of savannarum is 125 mm. in coudylo-basul lenoth. 



Pseudalopex culpseus, Molina, arid its Subspecies. 



The large " Culpeo " ranges from Ecuador to the Siraits 

 of ^ragellau with but little change of character. At most 

 certain forms of it may be distinguished as subspecies. ' 



In the south the skulls tend to get longer, especially in 

 the muzzle, a tendency which is carried, on the avcrao-o 

 Hightly further in Patagonian and Magellan specimens than 

 It. those from Central Chili, the type-locality of culpcvvs. 

 On this account we may, perhaps, provisionally recogniza 

 an extreme southern subspecies, Ps. c. magellanicus, which 

 gradually passes into Ps. c. ei/Ipa;us. 



In Tierra del Fuego the skull-lengthening is carried to an 

 extreme in the very distinct Fs. lycoides, Phil. 



On the other hand, in tiie north the skull is shorter, and 

 there is little of the peculiar lengthening of the muzzle found 

 in the extreme south. Specimens from Ecuador, Peru, and 

 iiohvia all agree in the size and shape of their skulls. 



1 hose from Ecuador would be representative of Ps. c. reissii 

 Jiilzh.*, while those from the highlands of Peru and Bolivia 

 ditter enough in colour to seem worthy of subsnecific 

 distinction : — ^ 



Pseudalope.v cuJpaus andina^ subsp. n. 

 Similar to Ps. c. reissii \n skull-characters, but the colour 

 more sufTused with bully above, especially anteriorly, and 

 whiter below. j i 



While in reissii the reddish colour of the crown chaiHr,.., 

 abruptly at the occiput to the heavily black-washed giey'of 

 the back, the nape being therefore like the latter, in the new 

 torm the nape, from the withers forward, is strongly sutf used 

 with buffy, and the black tips to the longer hairs are so 



* C<mir.(Anf,usfirrpg)rei>^sii, lUh.h. Zool. Anz., April 190G, p. lU 

 Si^ohos rtceti, I roues. C. II. vuJ. cxliii. p. 1 184 ( Deco.nber 1!>0(;).^ 



rseudalopex. J he subgenus Microcyon was based upon it {t. c. p. 11801 

 Ann. ii- Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol xiii. 24 



