' 172 Fretp Museum or Natura History — Zo6é.oey, Vor. X. 
wanting, and birds were very scarce, several species of doves being 
almost the only ones seen. 
Although advised by the natives that the early morning was the best 
time for hunting, we sighted a pair of bears at midday apparently active 
and feeding in the full glare of the tropical sun. They were on a low 
bench just above the boulder strewn playa or dry stream bed along the 
opposite side of which we were picking our-way at a distance of about 
half a mile. They might have been overlooked if one of them had 
not drawn our attention by standing erect. After a rapid chase, during 
which a couple good dogs were of much assistance, the female bear was 
killed while the other, presumably a male, was only shentty, wounded 
and made its escape. 
From reports received from local sources, it is evident that bears 
are fairly common in numerous localities in the arid region similar to 
the one in which we found them. That the bears of this region can be 
the same species or subspecies as those of the forested regions of eastern 
Peru does not seem probable, but without specimens of both sexes from 
both regions the matter remains doubtful. 
It is even possible, as suggested by Tschudi,! that the original type 
of Ursus ornatus came from this region by way of Trujillo in spite of 
F. Cuvier’s statement that it came from Chile. Certain it is that it 
must always have been an easy matter to bring living bears into Trujillo, 
whereas specimens from Chile have been recorded but rarely if at all. 
Canis sechurze Thomas. PERUVIAN DESERT Fox. 
Two adult females, Menocucho. 
Only lack of time prevented our obtaining a series of this species, for 
it was fairly common and not difficult to trap. Tracks were seen daily 
leading up and down the paths about the cane fields, in the sandy stream 
beds, and occasionally out on the open desert at considerable distance 
from water. Small ground doves which abound evidently are the 
favorite prey of the foxes. 
Canis culpzus reissi Hilzheimer. NortHern CULPEO. 
Camis reissii Hilzheimer, Zool. Anzeiger, Xxx, p. 116, Apr. 17, 
1906 — Type from Quito, Ecuador. 
The canids of southern Chile, Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego have 
long been known to be of two general types, one small and foxlike, the 
other larger and more wolflike, although still somewhat smaller than a 
' Fauna Peruana, pp. 91-92, 1844. 
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