470 CANIS. 
OCHRACEOUS-FOOTED COYOTE. 
Type locality. California. Typical style from Tracy, San Joa- 
quin County, California. 
Geogr. Distr. Lower California, Mexico, to San Joaquin Valley, 
California. 
Genl. Char. Similar to C. latrans, but smaller, darker, and more 
highly colored; ears larger, skull and teeth smaller. 
Color. Muzzle grizzled cinnamon rufous; top of head grayish 
fulvous; rest of upper parts buffy ochraceous mixed with black; 
under parts whitish; belly tinged with buff; ruff grizzled, hairs tipped 
with black, sometimes going on the breast, as in C. estor and C. mearnst; 
fore and hind legs and feet fulvous all round, paler on inner side, and 
very deep on outer side of hind leg; upper side of fore leg strongly 
marked with black; outer side of thighs with black-tipped hairs; tail 
beneath pale fulvous, white basally, tipped and edged with black; 
on terminal third of under side the hairs are black-tipped; extreme 
tip often white. 
Measurements. Total length, 1110; tail vertebra, 295; hind foot, 
180. Skull: basal length, 177; Hensel, 174; zygomatic breadth, 94; 
palatal length, 98; mastoid breadth, 62; crown of upper sectorial, 19. 
SN p. 
AY Pag ras Mas k 
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Say 4 
Fic. LXII. CANIS MEXICANUS. MEXICAN TIMBER WOLF. 
