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Some time later JNIiles wrote Rlioads (1896, p. 200) that two wolves 

 had been poisoned about December 10, 1895, within 7 miles of Browns- 

 ville, Haywood County. 



CANIS RUFUS FLORID ANUS Miller: Florida Red Wolf 



A right mandible (U.S.N.M. no. 200145), referred to this wolf, 

 was found by Clarence B. Moore in 1914-15 a short distance above 

 Chattanooga in debris from the Citico aboriginal mound near Citico 

 Creek, Hamilton County. It is quite likely that this red wolf ranged 

 over southeastern Temiessee at least until the time of the arrival of 

 the first white traders, since iron-blades manufactured by the whites 

 were found at this site (Moore, 1915, pp. 373-374). 



CANIS RUFUS GREGORYI Goldman: Mississippi Valley Wolf 



The specific identity of the gray and black wolves of Tennessee is 

 quite puzzling in view of conflicting statements. According to Ben- 

 jamin C. Miles (1895, p. 182) the small black wolf was exterminated 

 about 1870 in Haywood and Lauderdale Counties. Major Shaw 

 (Rhoads, 1896, p. 200) says that "our present wolf is larger and very 

 much fiercer than those of my childhood, at least those specimens 

 were which came under my observation." Audubon and Bachman 

 (1851, vol. 2, p. 130) refer to having seen black wolves on trips 

 through southern Kentucky and mention one hunter who had trained 

 a black wolf to trail deer. No specimens are available for examina- 

 tion. It is known, however, that the black phase is quite common in 

 this species of wolf. Goldman (1937, p. 44) states that "a specimen 

 from Cherokee, Colbert County, northwestern Alabama, is somewhat 

 intermediate, but in heavy dentition is nearer -floridanusy 



CANIS LATRANS Say: Coyote 



Coyotes are reported to have been introduced in Tennessee in recent 

 years, though no information is at present available as to the source 

 where they were obtained. A female killed in Maury County was 

 acquired by the Tennessee State Museum in 1930. According to an 

 item that appeared in the Migrant,- "it is believed that it is from a 

 stock of coyotes that were liberated in west Tennessee at Grand Junc- 

 tion [Hardeman County] for the purpose of training hounds." The 

 Bureau of Biological Survey obtained from Earl May the skin and 

 skull of a female killed on May 23, 1931, at, McCains. 



Maury County: McCains, 1. 



^ Quart. Publ. Tennessee Orn. Soc, vol. 1, nos. 3-4, p. 19, Dec. 1930. 



