. The land and sea mammals of Middle America and the West Indies . iiliaris Frisch, Nat. Syst. vierfiiss. Thiere, in Tab., 1775. Naturg. 1816, Zool. 2te p. 1039. FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM. PLATE XLVI, Canis 7618 Field Columbian Mus. t^oU. J nat. size. CAN IS. 4f,.-. Alopex Kaujx & Naturl. Syst. Europ. Thierw., i, 1829, p. H. Smith, in Jard., Nat. Libr. Manini., ix, 1839, pp. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1868, p. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1868, p. 506. Nose long, tapering; jaws elongate; poslorbi
. The land and sea mammals of Middle America and the West Indies . iiliaris Frisch, Nat. Syst. vierfiiss. Thiere, in Tab., 1775. Naturg. 1816, Zool. 2te p. 1039. FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM. PLATE XLVI, Canis 7618 Field Columbian Mus. t^oU. J nat. size. CAN IS. 4f,.-. Alopex Kaujx & Naturl. Syst. Europ. Thierw., i, 1829, p. H. Smith, in Jard., Nat. Libr. Manini., ix, 1839, pp. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1868, p. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1868, p. 506. Nose long, tapering; jaws elongate; poslorbital processes short;orbit open posteriorly; braincase lengthened, compressed anteriorly; short, blunt, slightly curved; upper carnassial with a strongblade, the middle lobe conical, pointing backward, the anterior lobenearly obsolete; lower carnassial with a bilobed blade, compressed,the hinder lol)e the larger, with two cusps and a raised interior border. KEY TO THE SPECIES. A. Size small; tail about half the length of body. a. Teeth large, heavy. page a. Under surface of tail ochraceous; tip black C. Icstcs 465 b. Under surface of tail fulvous; tip black. a. Rostrum thick; palate short, broad C. cagottis 466 b. R
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