CANIS. 375 



mandible of C. occidentalis : the coronoid process is very broad, high, 

 of nearly equal width throughout, and with the posterior outline 

 nearly straight, not curving like that of the southern species; teeth in 

 both jaws large and heavy, exceeding in size those of C. occidentalis 

 in the same proportion as do the skulls. 



Color. Type: General hue of b6dy, tail, legs, and feet black; the 

 bases of the long hairs a smoky white, showing rather conspicuously 

 on the sides; a pure white spot on the breast and lower part of the 

 abdomen, and large spots on the fore part of chest behind fore legs 

 grayish white; head and ears shining black; tail black, with a few 

 white hairs at tip; claws black.' 



Other specimens are all black with very few grayish white hairs 

 showing. From this sable hue, which in certain sections seems to be 

 the prevailing one, the color varies in different mixtures of black and 

 white to that in which the white is the prominent color with jet black 

 lines on dorsal surface and neck. The tail of this stvle is mostlv 

 white with black mixed in places and with the tip black. 



Measurements. Skull: total length, 263; Hensel, 233; zygomatic 

 width, 143; intertemporal width, 64; lateral length of nasals, 97; 

 median length, 85; width of rostrum at canines, 55.5; palatal length, 

 126; width of palate between sectorials at base, 64; length of upper 

 tooth row, anterior edge of canine to posterior edge of last molar, 114 ; 

 length of canine, 36; alveolar length of carnassial, 27; width of row 

 of incisors at tips, 42; total length of mandible, 206; depth beneath 

 carnassial, 32 ; height at coronoid process from lower edge of angle, 78 ; 

 width of coronoid process at tip, 29. 



919. *Canis griseus (Sabine). 



Canis lupus griscns Sabine, Frankl. Xarr. Journ. Polar Sea, 1823, 



P- 654. 

 Canis lupus albus Sabine, Frankl. Narr. Journ. Polar Sea, 1823, 



P- 655- 

 Lupus griseus var. A. Richard., Faun. Bor. Amer., Mamm., i, 



1829, p. 66. 

 Lupus alhus var. B. Richard., Faun. Bor. Amer., Mamm., i, 1829, 



p. 68. 

 Lupus sticte var. C. Richard., Faun. Bor. Amer., Mamm., i, 1829, 



p. 68. 



*The status of the North American Timber Wolves has never been satis- 

 factorily determined, and it is not yet decided whether they are all of one 

 species, or represent various species and races. Canis griseus of Sabine appears 

 to be the earliest name for the Wolves north of Mexico, preceding Canis albus 

 of the same author by one page of the publication in which they both appear. 

 If the Timber Wolves of the Xorth American continent prove eventually to 

 be of the same species, Canis mexicanus Linnaeus is apparently the name by 

 which thev will be known. 



