Mammals of Washington, Volume 2: University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural HistoryDalquest, Walter Woelber
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Mammals of Washington, Volume 2: University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History
Dalquest, Walter Woelber
Mammals -- Washington (State)
_Measurements._--A male from 20 miles south of Ephrata, Grant
County, on the Columbian Plateau, measures: total length 1185;
length of tail 365; hind foot 198; ear 125; weight 26-1/2 lbs. A
female from 10 miles northeast of Goldendale, Klickitat County, in
the southern Cascades, measured: 1105; 280; 197; weight 19 lbs. A
female from Cashmere, Chelan County, in the northern Cascades,
measured: 1209; 410; 210; 131. A female from the middle fork of the
Nooksack River, Whatcom County, in western Washington, measured:
total length 1185; length of tail 358.
_Distribution._--Suitable areas of the entire state, except for
northeastern Washington.
_Remarks._--Pending a revision of the coyotes, those of western
Washington are referred to _lestes_.
=Canis latrans incolatus= Hall
_Canis latrans incolatus_ Hall, Univ. California Publ. Zoöl.,
40:369, November 5, 1934.
_Type._--Obtained at Isaacs Lake, 3,000 ft. elevation, Bowron Lakes
Region, British Columbia, by T. T. and E. B. McCabe on October 23,
1928; type in Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy.
_Racial characters._--Similar to _lestes_ but frontal region more
concave.
_Measurements._--A male from 20 miles east of Tonasket, Okanogan
County, measures: total length 1033; length of tail 291; hind foot
163; ear 110.
_Distribution._--Northeastern Washington, west to Okanogan and
Conconully (W. W. D.).
_Remarks._--Several series of coyote skulls from northeastern
Washington are more variable than series of _lestes_ from
California and _incolatus_ from British Columbia. The "dish-faced"
character of _incolatus_ is more strongly represented in some
coyotes from northeastern Washington than in topotypes of
_incolatus_ but others are more like _lestes_. In average
measurements they are nearer _incolatus_.
=Canis lupus fuscus= Richardson
Timber Wolf
_Canis lupus_ var. _fusca_ Richardson, Mammalia, Zoölogy, Captain
Beechey's voyage of the Blossom, p. 5, 1839.
_Lupus gigas_ Townsend, Jour. Acad. Sci. Philadelphia, 2:75,
November, 1850 (type from near Vancouver, Clark County,
Washington).
_Canis gigas_ Miller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 59 (no. 15):4, June
8, 1912.
_Canis occidentalis gigas_ Taylor and Shaw, Birds and Mamm. Mt.
Rainier Nat. Park, p. 39, 1927.
_Canis lycaon gigas_ Bailey, N. Amer. Fauna, 55:272, August 29,
1936.
_Type locality._--Banks of the Columbia below The Dalles in Oregon
or Washington.
_Racial characters._--A large, relatively dark colored wolf with
wide skull and heavy dentition.
_Distribution._--Probably occurred from the eastern base of the
Cascades westward to the Pacific. Now extinct over most of its
range.
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