188 CANIDiB. 



Loup de Mexique, Buffmi, N. H. xv. p. 149. 



Mexican Wolf, Penn. 



Cuetlaohti, Fernand. N. Hisp. p. 7. 



Hah. Mexico {Eernand.) ; Santa Cruz ; Sonera. 



Var. 3. ater. Black Wolf. B.M. 



Forehead of skull concave in the central line ; internal nostrils 

 narrow, parallel. 



Canis lycaon, Harlan, Fauna Amer. p. 126, 1828. 



Oanis lupus ater, JRich. F. Bm:-Am. i. p. 70 ; Aud, Sf JBachm. N. A. 



Quad. p. 126, t. . f. 7, 1851. 

 Canis occidentalis, var. ater, S. Baird, Mamm. N. A. p. 113. (Skull 



165 c, B.M.) 



Hah. Florida ; Georgia. 



Var. 4. ruf^s. 



Mixed red and hlack ahove, lighter beneath. 



Oanis lupus, var. rufus, Aiid. ^ Bachm. JV. A. Quad. ii. p. 240, t. 82, 



1851. 

 Canis occidentalis, var. rufus, S. Baird, Mamm. N. A. p. 113. 



Hah. Texas. 



4. Lupus aureus. (Jackal.) B.M. 



Skull — nose sloping on the sides, broad in front of orbits. The 

 sectorial tooth is placed obliquely in respect to the line of the pre- 

 molars and tubercular grinders. 



Oanis aureus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 59 ; PaUas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 39, 



t. 3 ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. B.M. p. 68 ; F. Cm. Mamm. Idth. t. ; 



Blainv. OMogr. t. 4 (skull, var. harharus), t. 6 (var. mareoticus, 



skull rather -wider). 

 Oanis barbarus, Shaw, Zool. i. p. 54. 

 Barbary Jackal, Pennant, Quad. i. p. 260. 

 Lupus aureus, Kampf. Aman. Exot. p. 413, t. 407. f. 3 ; Gray, P. Z. 8. 



1868, p. 504. 

 Canis nucrurus, Meichmbaeh. 

 Thos, Pliny. 



Chacal adiv^, Buffon, H. N. xiii. p. 255, Supp. iii. 1. 16. 

 Schakall, jS. G. Grmlim,, Reise, ui. p. 80,. 1. 13 : Giildenst. in Nov. 



Com. Petrop. xx. p. 449, 1. 10. 

 Jackal, Penn., Shaw. 



Hah. India ; Ceylon (Eeid). 



The several skulls in the British Museum differ from each other. 

 163 c is very wide at the zygomatic arches. Length 5 inches 4 lines, 

 width 3 inches 3 lines. The aperture of the internal nostril is wide, 

 8 lines, much wider than in other skulls. The skuU of a Jackal from 

 Barbary, sent to the Zoological Gardens by E. W. Drummond Esq., 

 163 ci : — length 5 inches 1 line, vridth 3 inches 1 line ; aperture of 

 internal nostril 6 lines. 



163 c. Nepaul. Presented by B. Hodgson, Esq. 



A skeleton with skull in the British Museum, 163 /c (Cants aureus, 

 part., Gerrard), from the Zoological Gardens is peculiar. Length 



