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much more rufous, as in the lestes type. Compared with a lestes specimen 

 of the same sex ( 9 ) from southern British Columbia, the carnassial is 

 slightly longer and heavier, or about like the corresponding tooth of a 

 male lestes skull from southern Oregon. The bullse in the Alaska specimen 

 are smaller, narrower, more elongate and less swollen than in the lestes 

 specimens. These slight differences may, however, be individual rather 

 than racial, a point to be determined by examination of additional Alaska 

 specimens. 



There is apparently no insuperable barrier to their continuous range, 

 through the valleys trending north and south, from the plains of British 

 Columbia northward, west of the main Rockies, but if coyotes inhabit this 

 region they must be rare or of local occurrence, since none have previously 

 been received from any part of this district, which, however, is faunally 

 not yet well known. 



In conclusion I desire to acknowledge my indebtedness to Dr. C. Hart 

 Merriam, Chief of the Biological Survey, for the loan of the skulls of C. 

 lestes on which the above comparisons are based. 



VI. THE GENERIC NAME GALERA BROWNE. 



The first modern use of Galera as a generic name was by J. E. Gray in 

 1843 (List of Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 1843, pp. xx and 67). He ascribed 

 the name to Browne (I. c., p. xx), and referred to it the single species Mustela 

 barbara Linn., citing under it Galera subfusca Brown, Jam. t. 29 [sic], f. I" 

 (1. c., p. 67), although Browne was not a binomialist and did not use subfusca 

 as a specific name. Thomas, in 1901 (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), VII, 

 Feb. 1901, p. 180, footnote), recognizing the propriety of separating generi- 

 cally the Grisons from the Tayras (following Nehring), adopted "Gray's 

 genus Galera" for the latter. 



Galera was again brought to notice by Sherborne in 1902, in his 'Index 

 Animalium' (p. 408), where he cites "Galera P. Browne, Hist. Jamaica, 

 ed. 2, 1789, 485." It was also included by Palmer, in 1904, in his 'Index 

 Generum Mammalium' (p. 289), where he gives "Galera Browne, 1789. 



Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica, 2d ed., 485, Tab. 49, fig. 1, 1789 Type, 



Mustela barbara Linnseus, from Brazil." He quotes from Browne: "This 

 creature [the Guinea Fox] 1 is often brought to Jamaica from the coasts of 

 Guinea [Guiana], 1 where it is a native." Here Palmer, perhaps following 

 Gray (as above), makes two erroneous assumptions: (1) that the "Guinea 



1 The words in brackets are Palmer's. 



