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Table B .—Detailed measurements in full of one typical skull each of five species of American and 
European foxes. 
V ulp. macrourus 
Q, 1325. 
V. fulvus. 
Carlisle, 678. 
V. vulgaris. 868, 
Nurnberg. 
V. lagopus. 
1040, Lapland. 
V.velox. 1345, 
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Inches. 
lOOths total 
length. 
Inches. 
lOOths total 
length. 
Inches. 
lOOths tota 
length. 
Inches. 
lOOths total 
length. 
Inches. 
lOOths total 
length. 
Total length. 
5. 70 
1 . 00 
5. 56 
1.00 
5. 57 
1.00 
5. 17 
1.00 
4. 46 
1 . 00 
Intermaxillary to condyle . .._ _ 
5. 60 
.98 
5. 43 
.97 
5. 37 
. 96 
5.05 
.97 
4. 44 
. 99 
Greatest width .. 
2.82 
.49 
2. 92 
.52 
3. 12 
.56 
2 . 80 
.54 
2.46 
.55 
Height above basi-occipital.. 
1 . 60 
.28 
1.55 
.27 
1 . 62 
. 29 
1.59 
.30 
1. 35 
.30 
Distance between orbits.. 
1.00 
.17 
1 . 08 
. 19 
1 . 11 
.20 
1. 13 
.21 
. 92 
.20 
Distance between points of orbital 
1 . 00 
1.42 
1. 49 
. 26 
1.41 
. 27 
1.19 
. 26 
processes. 
Nasal bones, length__ 
2.13 
.37 
2.21 
.39 
2.16 
.38 
1 . 81 
.35 
1. 57 
.35 
Nasal bones, width before_.... 
.41 
.07 
.49 
.09 
.50 
.09 
.37 
.07 
.34 
.07 
Narrowest part of muzzle behind ca¬ 
.84 
. 14 
. 89 
. 16 
.96 
. 17 
.88 
.17 
. 69 
.15 
nines. 
Upper incisors, from front to molars.. 
.88 
. 15 
.92 
. 17 
. 94 
. 61 
.80 
. 15 
. 69 
. 15 
Upper incisors, from front to hinder 
3.00 
.52 
2. 87 
.51 
2. 91 
.52 
2. 65 
.51 
2.42 
.54 
margin of palate. 
Upper incisors, width between ex¬ 
. 66 
• 12 i 
. 66 
. 11 
. 55 
. 09 
. 50 
. 11 
ternal edges. 
Upper molars, length taken together. 
2 . 20 
.38 ! 
2.01 
.36 
1.96 
.35 
1.94 
.37 
1.76 
. 39 
Upper molars, least distance between. 
. 56 
. 10 
. 63 
. 11 
. 57 
. 11 
. 46 
. 10 
Intermaxillary to end of nasals.._ 
2. 78 
.49 
2. 70 
.48 
2.75 
.49 
2.36 
. 46 
2.08 
.46 
Intermaxiliary to commencement of 
2.51 
.44 
2.42 
.43 
2. 35 
.42 
2 . 28 
.44 
1.91 
.42 
orbit. 
From line connecting points of orbital 
2. 70 
.45 
2.44 
.43 
2.53 
.45 
2.32 
.45 
2. 04 
.45 
processes to occiput. 
From do. to end of nasals_..._ 
2 . 78 
.49 
2.75 i 
.48 
2. 78 
.49 
2.50 
.48 
2. 23 
.50 
From do. to end of intermaxillary_ 
3. 34 
.58 
3.38 ' 
. 60 
3. 28 
.58 
3. 07 
.59 
2. 72 
. 61 
Lower jaw, length, (exclusive incisors). 
4.46 
.78 
4.02 
.72 
4. 07 
.73 
3.80 
.73 
3. 34 
. 74 
Lower jaw, height... 
1. 50 
. 26 j 
1.48 
.26 
1.40 
.25 
1.36 
1.21 
.27 
VULPES FULVUS. 
Common American Fox. 
Variety A. fulvus, Red Fox. 
Canis fulvus, Desm. I, 1820, 203. (Based on the Renard de Virginia of Palisot de Beauvois, in Bull. Soc. Philom.) 
“ Cuv Diet, des Sc. Nat. VIII, 568.” 
Harlan, F. Am. 1825, 89. 
Godman, Am. N. H. I, 286 
Griff. Cuv.V, 1827, 150. 
Doughty ’e Cab. N. H. 1,1830, 25 ; pi. iii. (Very poor figure.) 
