I 93-] Allen, Mammals from New Mexico and Durango. 6 1 I 



Represented by 8 adults (7 skins and an additional skull) and 7 

 newly born young, collected as follows: Villa Ocampo, 2 males, Feb. 

 13; La Boquilla, i female, Feb. 14; Rio Sestin, i male and 2 females, 

 April 16-19; Rancho Bailon, i female and 7 young (a few days old), 

 May 8 and 14. The February specimens are in good pelage; the 

 April and May ones are somewhat worn and faded. 



It is with much hesitation that I add a new name in a 

 group so imperfectly known as the Coyotes, but the present 

 series of specimens from northwestern Durango are clearly 

 not the C. cagottis of eastern Mexico, nor are they referable to 

 C. mearnsi from southern Arizona. In some respects they 

 combine the characters of both, but not in an intermediate 

 sense. 



In the valley of the Rio Sestin, says Mr. Batty in his notes, 

 "the coyotes greatly annoy the ranchmen in the winter 

 months. They are very bold, often entering corrals in the 

 daytime, killing calves, sheep, and goats. I have known 

 them to take small pigs from the steps of the squatters' huts." 

 He also refers to a night attack on his camp by a pack of 

 about twenty coyotes, who dragged away five deer skins from 

 within twenty feet of where he was lying. Three paid the 

 penalty with their lives and form part of the specimens above 

 enumerated. 



27. Mephitis macroura milled M earns. 



Two specimens, females, collected, respectively, at Rio 

 Sestin, April 17 (with M. estor), and at Rancho Bailon, May 4. 



28. Mephitis estor Merriam. 



Three specimens, 2 males and i female, collected as follows: 

 La Cienega de las Vacas, i male, April i ; Rio Sestin, 2 (male 

 and female), April 17. 



29. Procyon lotor hernandezii (Wagler). 

 A single skull, "found on the prairie, " at Rancho Santuario. 



30. Myotis incautus (J. A. Allen). 



Sixteen specimens: Rio Sestin, 2 (skins), April 16; San Gabriel, 14 

 (in formalin), June 16. 



