Vot. IIT] GRINNELL—MAMMALS OF CALIFORNIA : 285 
Type locality—Fort Vancouver, Clarke County, Washing- 
ton (see Miller, Smithsonian Misc. Colls., 59, 1912, pp. 2, 4). 
Synonyms—Canis mexicanus; Canis nubilis; Canis lupus 
griseo-albus; Gray Wolf. 
Range—Northern California, and south along the Sierra 
Nevada. Now rare or extinct. The number of records (e. g 
Price, Zoe, 4, 1894, p. 331) and reports from the region 
specified carries conviction that a wolf of some form has 
occurred as above indicated. But lack of specimens brings 
doubt as to the race represented. 
Canis latrans lestes Merriam 
Mountain Coyote 
Oricnal description—Canis lestes Merriam, Proc. Biol. 
Soe. iyeene ie Mviarchtsy TSO7n nm 25.26. 
Type loanlsin Towle Mountains, near Cloverdale, Nye 
County, Nevada. 
Range—Transition and Boreal zones of the Modoc region, 
west to Mount Shasta (Merriam, N. Amer. Fauna, 16, 1899, 
p. 103) and south along the Sierra Nevada at least to Monache 
Meadows, Tulare County (Mus. Vert. Zool.). 
Canis ochropus ochropus Eschscholtz 
California Valley Coyote 
Original description—Canis ochropus Eschscholtz, Zool. 
Alas SiteZoe np. lai) ple tb, 
Type locality—Tracy, San Joaquin County, California 
(fixed by Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 11, 1897, p. 32). 
Synonyms—Canis mearnsi; Mearns Coyote; Valley Coyote. 
Range—Throughout California west of the high Sierra 
Nevada, and south through the San Diegan district and in- 
cluded mountains to the Mexican line. Zone, chiefly Lower 
and Upper Sonoran, locally Transition. There is probably 
a slightly differentiated race in the San Diegan district (re- 
ferred to Camis mearnsi by Stephens, Calif. Mammals, 1906, 
p26) 
Canis ochropus estor Merriam 
Desert Coyote 
Original description—Cants estor Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. 
Weashv ii Marchel5..1897, pp Sl, 32. 
