THE AMERICAN WOLF. 47 



down the bait through the crevices of the floor. Traps of 

 several other descriptions were tried without success, the 

 wolves, in every instance, disregarding the bait unless it 

 could be obtained without the risk of being captured by 

 the spring. It was not until a log-trap was used that an 

 individual of this species was caught. This log trap is 

 made by raising one log above another at one end by 

 means of an upright stick, which rests upon a rounded 

 horizontal trigger on the lower log. 



The Barking Wolf is about three feet and a half long ; 

 its general color is cinereous or gray, intermingled with 

 black, and dull fulvous or cinnamon above. The hair is 

 of a dusky lead color at base ; of a dull cinnamon in the 

 middle of its length, and gray or black at the tip. The 

 face is cinnamon colored, tinted with grayish on the nose ; 

 the lips are white, edged with black, and have three series 

 of black bristles. Different individuals exhibit very con- 

 siderable variations in coloring. 



The ears are erect and rounded at tip, having the hair 

 on the back part of a cinnamon color, and dark plumbeous 

 at base, while that on the inside is gray. The eye-lids are 

 edged with black ; the superior eye-lashes are black be- 

 neath, and on the superior surface of their tips. The sup- 

 plemental lid is margined with black-brown before, and 

 edged with black-brown behind. The eye is yellow, and 

 the pupil of a black hue ; upon the lachrymal sac is a 

 spot of black brown. The color of the head between the 

 ears, is an intermixture of gray and dull cinnamon ; the 

 color of the sides is paler than that of the back, and faint- 

 ly banded with black above the legs, which are cinnamon- 

 colored on the outside, and more distinctly so on the pos- 

 terior hair. The tail is straight, broad, and bushy, of a 

 gray color, mingled with cinnamon above, and black at 

 the tip. The extremity of the trunk of the tail, reaches to 

 the projection of the os-calcis when the leg is extended. 



Many of the minute markings here given, may not be 



