32 ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE OF THE SULPHUR. 



The Coyote. — Canis ochropus. 



Plate X. 



Canis ochropus, or Cojoto, Eschscholtz, Zool. Atlas, part iii. t. 11. Rich. Zool. Bocchcy Voy. v. n. 23. 



Gray, List Mam. Brit. Mus. 59. 

 Canis latrans, var. ? Proc. Zool. Soc, 1833, 97. Rich. Zool. Becchey Voy. 11. 

 The Coyote, or Cojote, Veneyas, Noticia de la California, 1758, Map, upper right-hand figure. 

 Coyote, or Fox, Veneyas, Nat. and Civil Hist, of California, London, 1759, part iii. t. 2. upper figure. 



This species is noticed by Venegas, and figured in the margin of the map of 

 his work. It has also been figured in my late friend M. Eschscholtz's very 

 interesting Zoological Atlas of the Animals discovered during Captain Kotzebue's 

 second voyage round the world ; but the former figure is very small, and will serve 

 for any dog as well as the Coyote, and the latter having been taken from a badly 

 preserved specimen, is so little characteristic of the species, that I have thought 

 it desirable that it should be again figured, that the question of its presumed 

 identity with the Prairie Wolf might be set at rest. 



In the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, (I. 97.) for August, 1833, it is 

 stated, that the skins of the Coyote, obtained in Mexico by Captain Colquhoun, 

 were identical with the Prairie Wolf of Say. 



The specimen of the Coyote, brought from California by Captain Sir E. 

 Belcher, now in the British Museum, is quite distinct from the specimen of the 

 Prairie Wolf from North America in the same collection. Its face and ears are 

 considerably longer than that species, and the general tint is darker. 



" Very numerous about San Francisco, and quite a pest to the residents, from 

 its daring predatory habits. In the day they often showed us a bold front, and 

 during the night scour the plains, making the most terrific bowlings." — Ed. 



Family— URSID^. 

 Procyon Psora. 



Plate XL Animal.- Plate XVII. f. 1, 2, 3. Skull. 



Procyon psora, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist 1842, 2G1. List Mam. Brit. Mus. 74. 



Yellowish brown and grey, grisled. Face, temples, sides of the neck, chest, belly, and sides of 

 the body dirty yellow. Forehead, cheeks under the eyes, each side of the throat and back 

 of the ears, dark blackish brown. Fur rather long, close, dark brown ; longer hairs yellow- 

 white, those of the back, shoulders, and head, brown tipped. Tail short? perhaps 

 destroyed. 



Habitat California, Sacramento. 



