AI.LKX; IJOUS OF Till-; A.MKKK A.\ AH(»Kl(;l\KS. 457 



Extcninl Mrd.s-iirniinih. — It is not })()ssil)lt' to remove the skull and 

 limb-bones without injurinj,' the nmimny for exhibition purposes. 

 A few dimensions, however, follow:— 



Length from nose to root of tail, folhiwiiifr backbone — about 700 nun. 



Lengtli of tail, (broken at tip) slightly over 200 



Hind foot 141 



Femur (approxiniately) 14.5 



Tibia (apiHoxiinately) 143 



Upper jaw, front of canine to back of />m^ o.^.o 



Upper carnassial {pm*) 18 



Length of skull from occiput to tip of nose (approximately) . . 195 



Width outside upper canines 31 



'' carnassials .") i 



Zygomatic width — about 95 



Lower jaw, frrjnt of canine to back of ini 68.5 



I " " " " " " "/>4 49 



" pnii to puiA 35 



Lengtli of lower carnassial 21 



I>AKt;KR OR ("OMMOX IxDiAX Do(;. 



Plates 7, 8. 



1817. Cards familiaris americanus canadensis Walther, Hund, p. 43. 



1829. Cards familiar is var. c. canadensis Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Amer., 1, 



p. 80 (not Canis lupus canadensis Blainville 1841, which is Canis lycaon 



Schreber) . 

 1834-6. Canis canaflensis Reichenbach, Regn. anim., pt. 1, p. 46. fig. ,564. 

 Canis familiari.^ orthotu^ canadensis Reichenbach, Xaturg. raubth., 



p. 146, fig. 564. 

 1867. Canis domesticus borealis luparius Fitzinger, Sitzb. K. akad. \vi.ss. Wien, 



56, pt. 1, p. 409 (not C. f. orthotus luparius Reichenbach, Regne anim., 



pt. 1. ]). 13, fig. 131; not Canis domesticus luparius Fitzinger, Sitzb. 



K. akad. wiss. Wien, 1866, 54, pt. 1, p. 406; 1867, 56, pt. 1, p. 396. 

 1881. Canis latrans dotneMicus Langdon, Journ. Cine. soc. nat. hist., 3, 



p. 299 (not Canis fnmiliaris domesticus Linne, 1766). 



Characters. — This was probably elosel\- related to the Plains-Indian 

 Dog, but seems to have been usually solid black or black and white 

 in patches instead of resembling the Coyote in color. The skull has, 

 when adult, a knife-like sagittal crest, a high forehead, and is rather 

 slender. Limbs mucli longer than in the Short-legged Indian Dog 



