Coyote 795 



large Coyotes on the 2,000,000 square miles over which they 

 are found. 



The species is but slightly gregarious. The most I have socia- 

 ever seen in one day were 8, and the most at one spot, were 3. '''"'^^ 

 They were gathered at a dead calf and scattered immediately 

 after their feast. The most I have heard of together were 12, 

 also attracted by a carcass. W. R. Hine tells me that he has 

 seen 5 together, never more; these were at a dead animal; 

 3 are the most I ever saw travelling in company, and the most 

 he ever met with in one day was a dozen during a 60-mile 

 drive along Red River, in the autumn. 



Six Coyotes were seen by Lew Wilmot,^ as they were 

 chasing a Deer, in the spring of the year at Oroville, Wash. 



Eight Coyotes were seen together in August by Henry W. 

 Wende, of Sunnyside, Wash. They were near a drinking 

 place in the Yakima Valley and may have been a family, but 

 they looked fully grown. 



A dozen are the most in one band that I can learn of. 

 These were seen and heard near Humboldt by Professor John 

 Macoyn on October 15, during his journey from Fort Carleton 

 to Winnipeg in 1875. Early one morning, as he sat by the 

 fire after his wagon had gone, they gathered about him and 

 sitting on their haunches, some 75 yards off, all howled their 

 loudest personal information. 



As will be shown later, the Coyotes frequently combine 

 their efforts for the common good, although they do not habit- 

 ually go or live in bands. I should therefore say the species 

 was sociable, though but slightly gregarious. 



Intercommunication of ideas is well developed among inter- 

 Coyotes. The smell-telephone with the smelling posts is largely ^ica. 

 used, but they ako communicate many ideas by example. "^^"-"^ 



Their remarkable vocal powers are at least as important 

 as any. The principal sounds they utter are described in 

 another paragraph. 



' Forest and Stream, April lo, 1897, p. 284. 



