. Distribution of mammals in Colorado. Mammals. 1972 ARMSTRONG: COLORADAN MAMMALS 261 and Yarrow (1875:55) reported a melanistic individual from Los Pifios [=Bayfield], La Plata County, and Warren (1942:88) reported a silver fox from Cumbres Pass, Conejos County. Cross-foxes are considerably less abundant than the red phase. Among the few skins seen by me, only one was of a cross-fox, that from a place 3 mi. S of Colorado Springs. Vulpes wipes, as other foxes, was long considered a predator under Colorado law and thus afforded no legal protection. Under hunting regulations for the 1970 season,
. Distribution of mammals in Colorado. Mammals. 1972 ARMSTRONG: COLORADAN MAMMALS 261 and Yarrow (1875:55) reported a melanistic individual from Los Pifios [=Bayfield], La Plata County, and Warren (1942:88) reported a silver fox from Cumbres Pass, Conejos County. Cross-foxes are considerably less abundant than the red phase. Among the few skins seen by me, only one was of a cross-fox, that from a place 3 mi. S of Colorado Springs. Vulpes wipes, as other foxes, was long considered a predator under Colorado law and thus afforded no legal protection. Under hunting regulations for the 1970 season, the red fox is regarded as a "non-game ; Licensed hunting is allowed throughout the year without limit on daily bag or possession. That same regulation applies categorically to the following list of mammals: "Raccoon, Coyote, Gray Fox, Red Fox, Bobcat, Jack- rabbit, Skunk and Ground ; Churcher (1959) compared North Amer- ican and Eurasian red foxes, concluding that the populations represent a single holarctic species, Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus. Vulpes vulpes macroura Baird Vulpes macrourus Baird, in Stansbury, Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Appendix C, p. 309, June 1852; type locality, Wasatch Mountains, near Great Salt Lake, Utah. Vulpes vulpes macroura, Anderson, Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist., 14:58, 24 July 1961. Distribution in Colorado.—Generally dis- tributed in mountainous parts of state; plains of northeastern Colorado (Fig. 91). Comparison.—From V. v. regalis, the sub- species of the northern Great Plains, V. v. macroura differs in generally smaller size, relatively longer tail, and paler (more yellow- ish and less reddish) color. Measurements.—External and cranial measurements of two males and two females from near Crested Butte, and of two males from southwestern Weld County, are: 1054, 1092, 1038, 1038, 1180, 1230; 410, 463, 388, 388, 460, 470; 171, 179, 171, 171, 160, 164; —, —,
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