The land and sea mammals of Middle America and the West Indies (1904) (14584435180)

Identifier: landseamammalsof02elli (find matches)
Title: The land and sea mammals of Middle America and the West Indies
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Elliot, Daniel Giraud, 1835-1915
Subjects: Mammals
Publisher: Chicago
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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Fig. 86. Vulpes macrotis.No. 15843 .\in. Mus. Nat. Hist. Coll. *;i nat. size. 476. macrotis (U/zZ/r^), Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., iv, 1S88, p. 136. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm..iQoi, p. 306. Big-eared Kit Fox. Tvpc locality. Riverside. San Bernardino County, California. Gcogr. Disir. Lower California and States of Chihuahua andSonora, Mexico, into southern California. VULPES. 473 Gcul. Char. Size small; ears long, broad; muzzle, legs, and taillong and slender. Color. Above grizzled gray, darkest on back; sides, pectoralband, and upper pcirts of limbs pale fulvous; chin and throat white; under parts mixed white and buff; tail like back, terminal fourthblack; ear pale fulvous and iron gray, the margin white.
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Fig. LXIII. Vulpes macrotis. Big-eared Kit Fox. Measurements. Total length, 850; tail vertebra;, 290; hind foot,rio; ear from crown, 68. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 103; greatestzygomatic breadth, 58.2; mastoid breadth, 38.7; interorbital con-striction, 19.8; across postorbital processes, 26.3; palatal length, 55.7;length of nasals, 40; length of upper tooth row, 51.7; length of lowerjaw, 83.8; height at coronoid process, 27; length of lower toothrow, 57.8. The Gray Foxes, included in the present genus, are represented inNorth America by a number of species and races varying considerablyin size, the smallest not being more than half that of the well-knowneastern Gray Fox. They are very handsome animals, but not pos-sessed of the cunning equal to that of the Red Fox, and in the strugglefor existence seem, in their diminishing numbers, to be giving way totheir more fit relative. 474 UROCYON. I-P3 89. Uroeyoii. I—I 4—4 3—3 ^ Urocyon Baird, Mamm. N. Am., 1857, p. 121. Type Canis c