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white as you approach the Arctic Circle. The texture of 

 the hair in the black wolf is coarse, and his covering scant 

 that of the red animal similar, but not so much so, while 

 the gray is well provided with an abundant fur, but not 

 equal in quality or texture to the Arctic variety. Here, as 



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iii many other races, is to be observed the wonderful pro- 

 vision of nature to enable the animal kingdom to be suita- 

 bly clothed for the climate they live in, whether they have 

 to combat with almost tropical heat or hyperborean win- 

 ters. Thus what is generally called the gray wolf is one 

 and the same race with the black, brown, and white, the 

 change of color being to adapt them to the prevailing tem- 

 perature of the latitude they live in. 



The two other species are the coyote and prairie-wolf, 

 both much smaller than the aforementioned species, in fact 

 bearing the same relative position to the New World as 



