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750 Life-histories of Northern Animals 



for the Gray-wolf probably is Cams occidetitalis of Richardson, 

 1829. No special type locality was given, but the interior of 

 the continent. 



For the present it seems well to apply this name to the 

 big Gray-wolf, or Buffalo-wolf, of the plains. 



SIZE OF A good-sized male Gray-wolf that I caught in Colfax 



County, New Mexico, December 13, 1893, was 5 feet 2 inches 



(1,575 mm.) from nose-tip to tail- 



llll iiiiiiill|||IJII''' bone tip; of this, its tail was 16 



'•illl'lil I 11 I ll!(; inches (406 mm.); shoulders, 27 



''||||l|||lilllPilil'lli^ inches (686 mm.); girth of neck, 



,/ ''''. I'''' '' 18 inches (457 mm.); girth of chest, 



28^ inches (724 mm.); girth of 



forearm, 8J inches (209 mm.). Its 



''^^k'h weight was 102 pounds; other 



f"'\ ^1''' \ "'* males caught in the region weighed 



90 and 78 pounds. W. R. Hine 



weighed the Winnipeg Wolf (a 



male) at 104 pounds. 



/"^'yS^W T. p. James, of Clayton, New 



Mexico, assured me that in the 



fall of 1892 he killed a huge Wolf 



c"y°«°"" that turned a standard scales at 



150 pounds. This, however, is 



extreme, and the weights given above more nearly represent 



the normal male. 



SIZE OF A female taken at the same place, December 29, 1893, 



FEMALE ^^s^feety^ inches long (1,410 mm.); tail, 12 inches (305 mm.), 

 but imperfect; hind-foot, 10 inches (254 mm.); height at 

 shoulders, 25 inches (635 mm.); weight, 75 pounds. Another 

 female weighed 80 pounds, and a third, a poor one, only 55 

 pounds. 



COLOUR The skin of the first-mentioned male is now before me. 



It is, in general, a dull, yellowish-white, becoming nearly pure 



