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Show •"'I - DB. .1. tS. (.RAY ON THE CANID.E. [Julie 2o, sub-vaseshaped. Hinder opening of the palate broad, expanded.. Skull 821 b, 4 inches 2 lines long. Vulpes azarce (Chiloe), Waterhouse, M S . Vulpes vetulus (partly), Gerrard, Cat. Bones of M a m m . (821 bi) Hab. Chiloe. 9. PSEUDALOPEX. Tail elongate, reaching below the hocks. Pupil elliptical hi the daylight. Skull with a linear coronal ridge; the upper tubercular tee'th taken together scarcely so long as, or very little longer than the flesh-tooth. Pseudalopex, Burmeister, Faun. Bras. 24, 44. * The fore legs grey externally ; soles of the feet blackish brown. 1. PSEUDALOPEX AZARCE. Agoua rachay. B.M. Tubercular grinders 3 ; front always largest. Canis azaree, Pr. Max. Beitr. ii. 338 ; Abbild. t. ; Darwin, Zool. Beagle, xiv. t. 7 ; Blainville, Osteogr. t. 4 (skull). C. brasiliensis, Schinz, Cuv. Thierr. i. 222. Vulpes azarce, Gray, Cat. M a m m . B. M . 60; Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of M a m m . 87. Ayoua rachay, Azara, i. 317. Canis melanostomus, Wagner, Wiegm. Arch. 1843, i. 358. C. (Pseudalopex) azarce, Burm. Faun. Bras. 24, 44, t. 28. f. 3, t. 29. f. 3. C. azaree, Van der Hoeven, t. i. f. 8. Hab. South America; Brasil(Pr. 31 ax.); Paraguay (Azara); Patagonia (Darwin). ** The fore legs entirely red-yellow; soles of the feet red-brown. 2. PSEUDALOPEX GRISEUS. B.M. Fur reddish-yellow-grey ; legs red-yellow. Size small. Canis griseus, Gray, P. Z. S. iv. 88, 123, t. 6 ; Mag. N . H. 1837, p. 578. " Vulpes griseus, Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of M a m m . 88. Canis (Pseudalopex) griseus, Burmeister, Faun. Bras. 28, 48, t. 25. Hab. Patagonia (King). 3. PSEUDALOPEX MAGELLANICUS. Colpeo. B.M. Fur fox-red ; back blackish. Large-sized. Canis magellanicus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 88; Mag. N. H. 1 £37, p. 5/8 ; Darwin, Zool. Beagle, x. t. 5; Burmeister, Fauna Bras. t. 6. f. 3. C. (Pseudalopex) magellanicus, Burm. Fauna Bras. 24, 51; Reise La Plata, ii. 405 ; Wiegm. Arch. 1862, p. 329. |