NORTH AMERICAN LAND MAMMALS. 79 



*Canis rufus (Audubon and Bachman). 



1851. Canis lupus var. rufus Audubon and Bachman, Quadr. 

 N. Amer., vol. 2, p. 240. 



1905. Canis rufus Bailey, North Amer. Fauna, No. 25, p. 174. 

 October 24, 1905. 



Type Locality. — Texas. 



Range. — According to Bailey, tlie whole of southern Texas 

 north to the mouth of the Pecos and the mouth of the Colo- 

 rado, and still farther north along the strip of mesquite coun- 

 try east of the plains. 



t*Canis tundrarum Miller. 



1823. Ii Canis lupus — alhus Sabine, FrankHn's Narr. Journ. Polar 



Sea, p. 655. (Not of Kerr, 1791.) 

 1908. Canis occidentalis alhus Preble, North Amer. Fauna, No. 



27, p. 213. October 26, 1908. 

 1912. Canis tundrarum Miller, Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 59, 



No. 15, p. 1. June 8, 1912. 

 Type Locality. — Point Barrow, Alaska. 



Subgenus Lyciscus Hamilton Smith.* 



1839. Lyciscus Hamilton Smith, Jardine's Naturalists Library, 

 Mamm., vol. 9, p. 160. Type, Canis latrans Say. 



*Canis latrans Say. 



1823. Canis latrans Say, Long's Exped. Rocky Mts., vol. 1, p. 

 168. 



1885. Canis latrans True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (1884), 

 p. 610. 1885. (Part.) 



Type Locality. — Engineer Cantonment, near Blair, Washington 

 County, Nebraska. (Not Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie 

 County, Iowa.) 



Range. — Humid prairies and bordering woodlands of the north- 

 ern Mississippi Valley, in Iowa and Minnesota, and northern 

 edge of plains westward to the base of the Rock}^ Mountains 

 in the Province of Alberta. 



t*Canis nebracensis nebracensis Merriam. 



1897. Canis paUidus Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 11, p. 24. March 15, 1897. (Not of Riippell, 1826.) 



1898. Canis nebracensis Merriam, Science, n. s., vol. 8, p. 782. 

 December 2, 1898. (Substitute for pallidus Merriam.) 



Type Locality. — Johnstown, Brown County, Nebraska. 

 Range. — Arid plains from eastern Colorado to Montana and 

 Assiniboia. 



1 Revised by Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. A\ashington, vol. 11, pp. 19-33, March 15, 1897. 



