munks, ground squirrels and mice are their staple diet, but these 

 are often supplemented by various game birds and young fawns. 

 The latter are about the largest animals against whom they volun- 

 tarily wage war, for, unlike most of their family, the coyotes 

 are cowardly beasts and lack much of the reputed ferocity of their 

 kind. Like most cowards, however, they put on a sufficiently bold 

 front to terrify their inferiors and, in Yellowstone Park, have proved 

 such a menace that every means has been taken for their extermi- 

 nation. 



In their dealings with men these wolves are perfectly harm- 

 less beings whose worst fault is the persistency with wfiich they 

 follow camping parties in the hopes of finding waste scraps of food. 

 Indeed, there appears to exist a sort of good- fellowship between 

 them and the Indians of the West and Northwest, the descendants 

 of those aborigines to whom they owe the common name "coyote." 

 They also seem to have taken into their nature some of the wily 



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