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THE COLISHE. 



CANI8 VIRGINIANUS. 



Cants virginianus, Schreber's Saugthiere, Theil iii. p. 585, plate 92 B ; 

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

 (1777) ; Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 74 (1788) ; Desmarest, 

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

 p. 89 (1825); Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Amer. p. 96 

 (1829). 



Canis cinereo-argentatus, Erxleben, op. cit. p. 567 ; Gmelin, op. cit. p. 74 ; 

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

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



Canis griseus, Boddaert, Elenchus Anim. i. p. 97 (1784). 

 Vulpes virginianus, De Kay, Nat. Hist. New York, p. 45, pi. 7. fig. 2 

 (1842) ; 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.of Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll. vol. i. p. 160 (1863); 

 Alston, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Mamm. p. 67 (1880). 

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

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

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

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

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

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

 Urocyon littoralis, 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. 

 Tigrillo of the Costa-Ricans, Frantzius, loc. cit. 

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



THIS 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 



