MAMMALS-CANIDAE—CANIS LATRANS. 
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CANIS OCCIDENT ALIS, var. MEXICANUS. 
Mexican LoJjo Wolf. 
Canis Mexicanus, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 71. 
Shaw, Gen. Zool. I, 1800, 296. 
Desm. Mamm. I, 1820, 199. 
Fischer, Syn. 1829, 183. 
Berlandiere, Pr. A. N. Sc. Ph. V, Feb. 1851, 157. 
Sp. Ch. —Varied with grey and black. Neck maned more than usual. A black or dusky band encircling the muzzle. A 
dusky stripe down the fore leg. 
For the description of a strongly marked specimen, (No. -LJ|-§-, collected at Santa Cruz, So¬ 
nora,) of this variety, I would refer to the report on the zoology of the United States and 
Mexican Boundary Survey. 
The following varieties of the large American wolf I have not had an opportunity of 
examining: 
CANIS OCCIDENT ALIS, var. ATER. 
Black Wolf. 
Canis lycaon, Harlan, F. Am. 1825, 126. 
Canis (Lupus) ater, Rich. F. B. A. I, 1829, 70. 
Aud. & Bach. N. A. Quad. II, 1851, 126 ; pi. lxvii. 
This wolf, which is entirely black in color, according to Audubon and Bachman, is found 
most abundantly in Florida—occasionally in Georgia and other southern States. It was for¬ 
merly common in Kentucky, and, according to Say, on the banks of the Missouri, where, how¬ 
ever, it is now rarely seen, 
CANIS OCCIDENTALS, var. RUFUS. 
Red Wolf. 
Canis lupus, var. rufus, Aud. & Bach. N. A. Quad. II, 1851, 240 ; pi. lxxxii. 
According to the above authority, this is the most common variety of wolf in Texas. Its 
color is a mixed red and black above, lighter beneath. 
CANIS LATRANS, Say. 
Prairie Wolf. Coyote. 
Canis latrans, Say, in Long’s Exped. R. Mts. I, 1823, 168. 
Harlan, F. A. 1825, 83. 
Fischer, Synopsis, 1829, 183. 
Rich. F. B. A. I, 1829, 73; pi. iv. 
Doughty’s Cabinet Nat. Hist. I, 1830, 73 ; pi. vii. 
Maxim. Reise, n, 1841, 96. 
Aud. & Bach. N. A. Quad. H, 1851, 150; pi. lxxi. 
? Canis ochropus, Eschscholtz, Zool. Atlas, m, 1829, 1 ; pi. xi. (California.) 
Gray, Zool. Sulphur, 1844, 32 ; pi. x, (California.) 
Canisfrustror, Woodhouse, Pr. A. N. Sc. Ph. Y, Oct. 1850, 147.— Ib. Y, Feb. 1851, 157.—Is. Sitgreaves’ Exped. 
Zuni & Colorado R. 1853, 46. 
“Lyciscus cajoUis, Harm. Smith, Nat. Lib. Dogs.” 
This animal is intermediate in size between the fox and the wolf; resembling the former in 
sharpness of muzzle, the latter in form and character of the tail. It is a true wolf, however, 
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