38 SPORT IM NORTH AMERICA. 



THE COYOTE, OK WOLF. 



Among the most rapacious and dangerous of the 

 animals of North America, the vroli {Canis ochroims), 

 commonly called the coyote in some of the Southern 

 States, is as much dreaded by the trappers as either 

 the panther or the grisly bear. Wolves are much 

 more numerous in the United States than they are 

 in Europe, and are of more formidable aspect than 

 those of the Old World. In the distant glades of 

 the forest, and in the neighbourhood of farms and 

 villages, the wolf is to be met with foaming and 

 growling, a strange compound of cowardice and 

 audacity. 



It is not easy to snare these wolves, but they may 

 be hunted with dogs and horses. Their fur is of a 

 reddish shade, dull, and mixed with grey and black. 

 This is their ordinary colour ; but, as in the case of 

 other animals, there are varieties. Their tufted 

 tail, black at end, is a little more than a third longer 

 than the remainder of their bodies. They are like 

 the dogs which frequent the wigwams of the Indians, 

 which are certainly descended from this species. 

 They are to be found all through the regions which 

 lie between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean, 

 and in the south of Mexico. They hunt in herds 



