THE COYOTE 



WHAT has been said in regard to the wolf 

 and dog track, is applicable also to the 

 track and trail of the prairie wolf, but 

 as the latter is small there always exists the pos- 

 sibility that its track will be mistaken for that of 

 the fox. Where the locality gives no clue to the 

 identity of the maker of the trail, the tracker has 

 no distinguishing feature whatever from which 

 to form his judgment, since a big red fox makes 

 as big a track as a small coyote. The writer, 

 after hunting foxes for many years, followed 

 what he took for fox trails quite frequently in 

 a certain section of the country, until he discov- 

 ered that there was no fox within a couple of 

 hundred miles of the place. A big coyote, of 

 course, makes a larger track than a fox, but here 

 all difference stops. For comparison's sake the 

 track and trail of the average coyote and of the 

 average fox are shown. 



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