j 893.] Allen on Mexican Mammals and Birds. 3 * 



These specimens agree with Dr. Merriam's description of his 

 M. estor from San Francisco Mountain, Arizona, to which species 

 they are here provisionally referred. 



14. Procyon lotor hernandezii ( Wagler). Represented by 

 a single skin without label. 



15. Urocyon virginianus scottii Mearns. Several skins, 

 separate skulls, and a skeleton. 



16. Canis latrans Say. -Two skins with skulls, from north- 

 western Chihuahua, in winter coat. These compared with speci- 

 mens in summer pelage from Arizona (Mearns Coll.) show that 

 the seasonal change in the coloration and texture of the pelage is 

 very great. In winter specimens the coat is long, fine and soft, 

 above yellowish gray varied with black; in summer examples it is 

 thin, coarse and harsh, above yellowish brown, with very little 

 mixture of black. 



Specimens in winter coat from Montana are very different in 

 coloration from those from northern Mexico taken at the same 

 season, the southern specimens being much more yellowish 

 throughout, with the posterior surface of the ears, occiput, and 

 the outer surface of the limbs golden brown, much brighter and 

 more golden than in the northern specimens. Doubtless a proper 

 amount of material for comparison would demonstrate the desira- 

 bility of recognizing several subspecies among the Coyotes, 

 which range from Central America northward to beyond the 

 northern boundary of the United States, 



17. Lynx rufus maculatus (fforsf.&> Vig.). 



Felis maculata HORSF. & VIG. Zool. Journ. IV, 1829, p. 381, pi. xiii. (Mexico.) 

 Lynx rufus var. maculatus BAIRD, Mam. N. Am. 1857, p. 93. 

 ? Lynx baileyi MERRIAM, N. Am. Fauna, No. 3, 1890, p. 79. (Southern 

 Arizona. ) 



Two specimens, in winter pelage, without labels, but probably 

 from Camp 2 1, on the Bavispee River, 15 miles from Chuchuichupa, 

 December, 1891. One is adult, the other about half grown. The 

 adult specimen agrees very well with the description of Felis 

 maculata Horsfield & Vigors, to which these specimens are pro- 

 visionally referred. Whether or not it is the same as Lynx baileyi 



