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from one settlement to another. The distance was several miles, 

 and the country over which he travelled entirely unsettled. In 

 the morning his carcass was found entirely stripped of flesh. 

 Near it lay his axe, covered with blood, and all around, the 

 bushes were beat down, the ground trodden, and the number of 

 foot-tracts so great, as to show that the unfortunate victim had 

 fought long and manfully. On pursuing his track, it appeared 

 that the wolves had pursued him for a considerable distance, he 

 had often turned upon them and driven them back. Several 

 times they had attacked him, and been repelled, as appeared by 

 the blood and tracks. He had killed some of them before the 

 final onset, and in the last conflict had destroyed several ; his 

 axe was his only weapon. The prairie-woif'is a smaller species, 

 which takes its name from its habits, or residing entirely upon 

 the open plains. Even when hunted with dogs, it will make 

 circuit after circuit round the prairie, carefully avoiding the fo- 

 rest, or only dashing into it occasionally when hard pressed, and 

 then returning to the plain. In size and appearance this ani- 

 mal is midway between the wolf and the fox, and in colour it 

 resembles the latter, being of a very light red. It preys upon 

 poultry, rabbits, young pigs, calves, &c. The most friendly re- 

 lations subsist between this animal and the common wolf, and 

 they constantly hunt in packs together. Nothing is more com- 

 mon than to see a large black wolf in company with several 

 prairie- wolves. I am well satisfied that the latter is the jackal 

 of Asia. Several years ago, an agricultural society, which was 

 established at the seat of government, off^ered a large premium 

 to the person who should kill the greatest number of wolves in 

 one year. The legislature at the same time offered a bounty 

 for each wolf-scalp that should be taken. The consequence 

 was, that the expenditure for wolf-scalps became so great, as to 

 render it necessary to repeal the law. These animals, although 

 still numerous and troublesome to the farmer, are greatly de- 

 creased in number, and are no longer dangerous to man. We 

 know of no instances in late years of a human being having been 

 attacked by them. — Feather stwiehatigJi's Journal. 



5. Entomology in Scotland, — The great attention which has 

 been bestowed for many years on the Entomology of England, 

 where there is scarcely a single city without one or more assi- 



