THE MEXICAN WOLF. 259 



lands, being found equally in both continents. 

 We have mentioned black and gray wolfs in 

 North America. It appears that this fpecies is 

 difFufed as far as New Spain and Mexico ; and 

 that, in this warm climate, it has undergone 

 fome alterations, without changing its nature or 

 difpofitions ; for the Mexican woJf has the fame 

 figure, appetites, and habits as the Ituropean or 

 North American wolf; and all of them appt ;: 

 to be the fame fpecies. The Mexican wc' 

 rather the wolf of New Spain, where he 

 common than in Mexico, has five t<' 

 fore feet, and four on thofe behind. 

 are long and ereft ; and the eyes fpar'kle like 

 thofe of our wolf. But the head is twice as 

 large, the neck thicker, and the tail lefs bufhy-. 

 Above the mouth, there are fome brlftles as 

 large, but not fo fiiff, as thofe of the hedge- hog. 

 Upon an aflu- coloured ground, the body is 

 marked with fome yellow fpots. The head is 

 of the fame colour with the body, and marked 

 with tranfverfe brownifti lines, and the front is 

 fpotted with yellow. The ears are gray, like 

 the head and body. There is a long yellow 

 ipot on the neL:k, another on the breail, and a 

 R I third 



Canis cinereus, maculis fulvis variegatus, taeniis fubuigrls 

 a doifo ad latcra deorfum hinc iiide deduftis ; Drifjon quad, 

 p. 172. 



Canis Mexicanus, cauda deflexa, laevi, corpore cinereo, 

 fafciis fufcis maculifque fulvis variegato ; Linn. S^J}. Kat. l>, 6'S. 



