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WOLF OF SOUTHERN STATES, N. AMERICA, 
Lupus Meaicanus, SMitH, 
PLATE IV. 
Is still very imperfectly known, although it was 
described by Hernandez and Fernandez. In stature 
it is equal to the common, but the head is broader ; 
the ears are long and pointed ; the neck very thick ; 
the tail scanty and not so long as in the former ; 
the vibrisse are very robust, almost like quills, having 
black and white rings; the fur is grey with spots of a 
rusty tan-colour; the grey of the head is marked with 
several transverse blackish bars, and on the forehead 
with fulvous spots; the neck is grey with a fulvous 
bar and a similarly coloured spot on the breast, and 
with another on the chest; blackish bars and ful- 
vous spots run irregularly down the sides; the tail 
is grey, with a fulvous mark about the middle ; the 
limbs are grey with blackish rings from the body 
to the feet, distinguishing this species from all other 
wolves. We have never met with a specimen in 
museums, and only found an imperfect skin at 
Curacoa, brought from Honduras, where the species 
did not appear to be well known; but it may be 
that these animals vary considerably in the markings 
