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colour appearing at surface from between cars to base of tail 

 and over tliighs and shoulders. Longer hairs of head, sides, 

 and back with broad subterminal liglit area, buffy on neck 

 and back, dull whitish on flanks and sides, the extreme tips 

 blackish. Legs a grizzle of blackisii and whitish in strong 

 contrast with colour of sides, the inner surface washed with 

 dull ochraccous. Feet blackish, the hind foot much suffused 

 with dull ochraccous. Tail buffy clay-colour, the tip nearly 

 white, most of the hairs, except at tip, black terminally, and 

 those of underside with a whitish subterminal area. Under- 

 parts to fore legs buffy white, clouded by the dark underfur 

 and becomingbuff oninter-ramia and du.=ky on tips. Behind 

 fore legs the clouded whitish extends as a narrow median 

 area between the clear dull buff of lateral portions of under- 

 parts. 



Skull and teeth. — The skull is conspicuously smaller than 

 that of Vulpes vulpes, in this respect agreeing with that of 

 V. ichmisa;. It resembles the latter also in its greater relativo 

 breadth as compared with skulls of mainland foxes. The 

 teetii show no special peculiarities. 



Measurements. — Type: ear from crown 02 mm. (in two 

 other specimens 65 and 68). Skull of adult (probably male), 

 from type locality, No. 3. 12. 4. 2G : condylo-basal length 123; 

 zygomatic breadth 73*4 ; mastoid breadth 42-6 ; rostral 

 breadth over canines 22*6; depth of brain-case 38; depth 

 behind last molar 31-6 ; rostral depth behind canine 16-4; 

 mandible 97 ; maxillary tooth-row exclusive of incisors 55*4 ; 

 mandibular tooth-row exclusive of incisors 63"4. 



Vulpes vulpes silaceus, subsp. n. 



Type. — Adult male (skin and skull), collected near Silos, 

 Province of Burgos, Spain, January 1907, by the Rev. Father 

 Saturio Gonzalez. Original number 1. 



Diagnosis. — Like Vulpes vulpes vulpes of Central Europe, 

 but with the reddish tints niustly replaced by buffy and 

 greyish. 



Colour. — Head and face tawny-cchraccous, becoming a 

 yellowish ochraceous-buff behind ears and brightening to a 

 dull rufous about eye and between eye and base of whiskers; 

 upper surface of muzzle ochraccous-buff ; forehead from level 

 of front of eyes, and cheeks behind eyes, strongly suffused with 

 creamy white, this becoming less evident between cars and 

 disappearing entirely on oehraccous-buff area behind ear ; 

 hairs of outer margin and inner surface of ear pale cream- 

 bufT, those of inner margin light buff; back of ear with the 



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