790 Life-histories of Northern Animals 



This was not unusually large, but it was the heaviest he 

 ever saw, weighing 42 pounds on standard scales. 



A still heavier is reported to me by George L. Riming- 

 ton, of Penrith, England. He spent the winter of 1907-8 

 hunting Coyotes near Calgary, Alta.; out of 85 killed, the 

 heaviest was a very large male, which weighed 46 pounds on 

 standard scales. As the date was early November, it was of 

 course at its fattest time. 



A Winnipeg specimen (female) collected in the October 

 of 1908 by E. W. Darbey was: 



Length of snout to tail-bone tip . .4 feet I inch (1245 mTi-) 



Tail I foot 2^ inches (369 mm.) 



Hind-foot 8 " (203 mm.) 



Height at shoulders I " 9 " (534 mm.) 



Weight 25 pounds. 



Richardson gives' 3 feet (915 mm.) as the length of the 

 head and body of a specimen he took on the Saskatchewan. 

 In New Mexico, among a score of Coyotes of the local form 

 (lestes), I found many of the above dimensions, but the heavi- 

 est, a male, weighed 31 pounds; the ordinary males were but 

 28 pounds and the females 24 pounds. 



COLOUR "Muzzle dull and rather pale fulvous, finely sprinkled 



with gray hairs (chiefly above) and with black hairs (chiefly 

 on cheeks); top of head from front of eyes to ears griz- 

 zled gray, the pale fulvous zone of under-fur showing 

 through, but the gray predominating; ears deep, rich fulvous, 

 sparingly sprinkled with black hairs; upper parts from ears 

 to tail coarsely mixed buffy-gray and black; under parts and 

 upper lip whitish; long hairs of throat sparingly tipped with 

 blackish, giving the broad collar a grizzled appearance; fore- 

 legs and feet dirty whitish, becoming dull clay colour on outer 

 side of leg; hind-legs and feet dull fulvous on outer side, white 

 on inner side and on dorsal surface of feet, the change from 

 fulvous to white rather abrupt; tail narrowly tipped with 



' F, B, A., 1829, I, p. 74. 



