. Biological survey of Texas : Life zones, with characteristic species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and plants. Reptiles, with notes of distribution. Mammals, with notes on distribution, habits and economic importance. Zoology Texas. 180 NOETH AMEEICAN FAUNA. [No. 25. TJrocyon cinereoargenteus scotti Mearns. Gray Fox. TJrocyon c'mereoargenteus texensis Mearns,a Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XX, Advance Sheet, January 12, 1897, p. 2. The gray fox is common over all the western half of Texas, except on the open plains. It is mainly an inhabitant of the timbered or brush}^ country, living in hollow tree
. Biological survey of Texas : Life zones, with characteristic species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and plants. Reptiles, with notes of distribution. Mammals, with notes on distribution, habits and economic importance. Zoology Texas. 180 NOETH AMEEICAN FAUNA. [No. 25. TJrocyon cinereoargenteus scotti Mearns. Gray Fox. TJrocyon c'mereoargenteus texensis Mearns,a Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XX, Advance Sheet, January 12, 1897, p. 2. The gray fox is common over all the western half of Texas, except on the open plains. It is mainly an inhabitant of the timbered or brush}^ country, living in hollow trees or logs, but preferably in dens among the rocks. It lacks the cunning and swiftness of the red fox, is easily caught in traps, and quickly overtaken by the hounds, except where it can keep in dense cover. Often after a short run, and sometimes at the very start, it trees or takes to its rock den, where it is safe from the dogs; but if no such protection offers there. Fig. 21.—Gray fox (Uroci/on c. scotti) in trap, Langtry, Texas. (Photographed by Oberholser.) is little hope for the fox. Even over rocks and in the brush I have seen the hounds catch one in a 200-yard dash. With a good start, a Tlie original label on the type of Urocyon c. texensis reads: " Rio Bravo and San Pedro. 1851. A. ; As is well known, Rio Bravo is synonymous with Rio Grande, and at that time the Devils River was commonly known as the San Pedro. (See Baird's Mammals of N. Am., p. 713, and Pacific R. R. Rept, Vol. I, p. 110. Also see query after Eagle Pass in Mammals, Mex. Boun- dary Survey, Vol. II, pt. 2, p. 17.) This seems to necessitate changing the type locality of texensis from ' near Eagle Pass' to the junction of the Devils River with the Rio Grande, which, however, has no important bearing on the validity of the species. In comparing the type of texensis and other specimens from near the mouth of Devils River, Painted Caves, Langtry, San Diego, and the Davis Mountains, in weste
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