Coyote 799 



In October the young are as big as the parents and 

 the family is scattered. Food is still abundant, although the 

 Ground-squirrels have retired to their winter quarters, and the 

 Coyotes are sleek and fat, but from this time on the struggle 

 for life grows hard and deadly. 



"Wolves, and probably Coyotes [says Bailey*], do not 

 breed till 2 years old, which accounts for the presence of roving 

 bands during the breeding season." 



The only migration that I know of in this species is the migra- 

 casual one in search of shelter or better hunting. In January, 



Tracks of Coyoti 



1883, after a three days' blizzard at Carberry, Man., the 

 Coyotes were seen moving all day from the north to the south- 

 west. Eight individuals I saw, and the trails in the snow told 

 of many others taking the same course. The wind was south- 

 west. Barton says that in stormy weather there is a sort of 

 local migration of the species from the Souris Plains to the 

 sheltered region of Turtle Mountain. 



The food of the species consists of every kind of fish, flesh, food 

 or fowl that it can master alive or discover dead. Ground- 



' V. Bailey, Circular No. 63, Biol. Sur. U. S. Dep. Agr., April 29, 1908, p. 7. 



