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is one and the same race with the black, brown and 

 white, the change of colour being to adapt them to the 

 prevailing temperature of the latitude they live in. 



The two other species are the cayotte and prairie 

 wolf, both much smaller than the aforementioned 

 species, in fact bearing the same relative position to the 

 new world as the jackal does to the old. They are essen- 

 tially prairie animals and invariably live in burrows, 



PRAIRIE WOLVES. 



while the larger race, although found in the open 

 country, is partial to forest, and generally sleeps in a 

 nest or den upon the surface of the soil or in a crevice 

 of the rocks. The prairie wolves and cayottes are 

 timid little fellows, living and hunting in communities, 

 and if captured young are easily tamed, becom- 

 ing much attached to their owner, and when in that 



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