190 HUNTING THE GRISLY. 



of the locality. This occurred near Thomp- 

 son's Falls, Montana. 



Usually wolves are found singly, in pairs, or 

 in family parties, each having a large beat over 

 which it regularly hunts, and also at times 

 shifting its ground and travelling immense dis- 

 tances in order to take up a temporary abode 

 in some new locality for they are great 

 wanderers. It is only under stress of severe 

 weather that they band together in packs. 

 They prefer to creep on their prey and seize 

 it by a sudden pounce, but, unlike the cougar, 

 they also run it down in fair chase. Their 

 slouching, tireless gallop enables them often 

 to overtake deer, antelope, or other quarry ; 

 though under favorable circumstances, espe- 

 cially if near a lake, the latter frequently 

 escape. Whether wolves run cunning I do 

 not know ; but I think they must, for coyotes 

 certainly do. A coyote cannot run down a 

 jack-rabbit ; but two or three working to- 

 gether will often catch one. Once I saw three 

 start a jack, which ran right away from them ; 

 but they spread out, and followed. Pretty 

 soon the jack turned slightly, and ran near one 

 of the outside ones, saw it, became much 

 frightened, and turned at right angles, so as 

 soon to nearly run into the other outside one, 

 which had kept straight on. This happened 

 several times, and then the confused jack lay 

 down under a sage-bush and was seized. So 

 I have seen two coyotes attempting to get at 

 a newly dropped antelope kid. One would 

 make a feint of attack, and lure the dam into 



