. The land and sea mammals of Middle America and the West Indies . California, Mexico, to San Joaquin Valley,California. Genl. Char. Similar to C. lafraiis, but smaller, darker, and morehighly colored; ears larger, skull and teeth smaller. Color. Muzzle grizzled cinnamon rufous; top of head grayishfulvous; rest of upper parts buffy ochraceous mixed with black;under parts whitish; belly tinged with buff; ruflf grizzled, hairs tippedwith black, sometimes going on the breast, as in C. estor and C. meariisi;fore and hind legs and feet fulvous all round, paler on inner side, andvery deep on outer s
. The land and sea mammals of Middle America and the West Indies . California, Mexico, to San Joaquin Valley,California. Genl. Char. Similar to C. lafraiis, but smaller, darker, and morehighly colored; ears larger, skull and teeth smaller. Color. Muzzle grizzled cinnamon rufous; top of head grayishfulvous; rest of upper parts buffy ochraceous mixed with black;under parts whitish; belly tinged with buff; ruflf grizzled, hairs tippedwith black, sometimes going on the breast, as in C. estor and C. meariisi;fore and hind legs and feet fulvous all round, paler on inner side, andvery deep on outer side of hind leg; upper side of fore leg stronglymarked with black; outer side of thighs with black-tipped hairs; tailbeneath pale fulvous, white basally, tipped and edged with black;on terminal third of under side the hairs are black-tipped; extremetip often white. Measurements. Total length, mo; tail vertebra?, 295; hind foot,180. Skull: basal length, 177; Hensel, 174; zygomatic breadth, 94;palatal length, 98; mastoitl breadth, 62; crown of upper sectorial, Fig. LXII. Cams mexicanus. Mexican Timber Wolf. CANIS. VULPES. 471 475. mexicanus (Cants), Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1766, p. Timber Wolf. Lobo in Spanish America. Type locality. Mexico. Gcogr. Distr. States of Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico; rangeunknown. Gcid. Char. Size large; tail longer than half the body withouthead; prevailing hues clouded yellow, white, and black. Color. Nose buff on sides, grizzled on top; face and chin mixedblack and white; sides of face gray; back black; hind part of neckgrayish white; sides and under parts buffy white; throat and underparts of neck dark gray and white in patches; outer side of limbs richbuff, inner side white; tail above mixed black and white, beneathwhite, tip black; feet pale yellowish white; ears deep buff, the tipsgrizzled black and 1)uff. Measurements. Total length, 1580; tail to end of hairs, 470(skin). Skull: occipito-nasal length, 226; Hensel, ; zygomaticb
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