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coyote. The smaller animal, currently known as Canis griseus, has 
been reported frequently from localities well to the northward in Chile, 
Bolivia, and southern Peru and is represented by a desert form, Canis 
sechure, on the northern coast of Peru; but the larger one, usually called 
Canis magellanicus, has been regarded as chiefly southern in distribution 
and the most northerly record has been that of the valley of Copiapo in 
north central Chile where Darwin found it some seventy-five years ago. 
It was with some surprise, therefore, that I received reports in northern 
Peru of a zorro del monte or lobo del monte said to be much larger than the 
well known small fox of the coast region. Later I saw its tracks in 
- several localities between Cajamarca and Moyobamba and once near 
Molinopampa at about 9,000 ft. altitude I succeeded in trapping one of 
the animals only to have it pull out and escape as I approached the trap. 
Through the courtesy of Mr. E. W. Nelson, I have been privileged 
recently to examine a specimen of a small wolf collected for the U. S. 
Biological Survey in Chosica Canyon, west of Lima, Peru, by Dr. C. H. 
Tyler Townsend. This specimen appears to represent a slightly differ- 
entiated subspecies of the Chilean Culpeo or Magellanic Wolf. It 
seems probable, moreover, that Hilzheimer’s name Canis retssti should 
be used for this northern form although neither description nor figure 
make this wholly conclusive. If this be the case, it should be called 
Canis culpeus reissi since Molina’s name culpeus' has many years prior- 
ity over magellanicus,? the name current for the southern form. Molina 
had no type and fails to mention a definite locality but his description is 
adequate and plainly refers to the animal of central and southern Chile 
where the vernacular name culpeu was and probably still isin use. All 
authors thus far who have made comparison of the animal of central 
Chile with that of the extreme south have concluded them to be identi- 
cal. Therefore, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, it seems 
necessary to regard magellanicus as a synonym of culpeus. Gray’s 
type of magellanicus was from Port Famine which is on the continental 
side of the Straits, not on Tierra del Fuego as stated by Mivart.* The 
form inhabiting the island of Tierra del Fuego, if distinct from that of 
the mainland, will take the name Canis lycoides Philippi.* 
As represented by the Peruvian specimen before me, the northern 
form differs from typical culpeus in slightly smaller size, richer color, 
1 Saggio Storia Nat. Chile, p. 293, 1782. I have seen only the second edition and 
a translation of this work. ; c 
2 Gray, Charlesw. Mag. Nat. Hist., I, p. 578, Nov., 1837. 
3 Monogr. Canida, p. 53, 1890. 
# Anales. Univ. Chile, p. 4 (author's ed.), Oct., 1896. 
