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THE PRAIRIE-WOLF OR COYOTE. 



CANI8 LATRANS. 



Canis latrans, Say, Long's Expedition to Rocky Mountains, vol. i. p. 168 

 (1823) ; Harlau, Fauna Americana, p. 83 (1825) ; 

 Richardson, Fauna Boreali- Americana, p. 73, pi. 4 (1829) ; 

 J. A. Wagner, Supplement to Schreber's Saugthiere, 

 Abth. ii.'p. 397 (1840); Maximilian, Prinz zu Wied, 

 Reise in Nord-America, vol. ii. p. 96 (1841) ; Audubon, 

 Quadrupeds of North America, vol. i. p. 150, pi. 71 

 (1851) ; Baird, Mammals of N. America (in Reports of 

 Mississippi Railroad), p. 113 (1857) ; id. Report of Mexican 

 Boundary, vol. ii. Mammals, p. 15 (1858) ; Coues, 

 American Naturalist, vol. i. p. 289 (1868) ; id. ibid. vol. 

 vii. p. 385 (1873) ; Alston, Biologia Centrali-Americana, 

 Mammals, p. 66. 



Canis ochropus, Eschscholtz, Zool. Atlas, Heft iii. p. 1, pi. 11 (1829) ; 

 Gray, Zool. of H.M.S. ' Sulphur/ vol. i. p. 32, pi. 10 (1844) . 



Canis frustror, Woodhouse, Proc. Acad. N. Sc. Philadelphia, vol. v. 

 1850-51, p. 147. 



Lyciscus latrans, Hamilton Smith, Jardine's Naturalist's Library, vol. ix. 

 p. 162, pi. 5 (1839); Frantzius, Archiv f. Naturg. 

 Jahrg. xxxv. vol. i. (1869). 



Chrysocyon latrans, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 506; id. Gray, Cat. 

 of Carnivorous Mammalia, p. 192. 



THE Prairie- Wolf is an animal to be met with in large numbers 

 and extends over a very wide range of country. 



In reply to our inquiries, Dr. Coues has been kind enough to inform 

 us, on the authority of Mr. Allen, that it has now been extirpated 

 over a considerable portion of the United States, and has elsewhere 

 suffered great reduction in numbers. It has probably wholly disap- 

 peared from large areas in Kansas, Nebraska, and elsewhere along the 



