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THE CAYGOTTE* OF MEXICO. 
Lyciscus cagottis, SMITH. 
PLATE VL 
Tur Caygotte of the Mexican Spaniards, and most 
probably the Coyotl of the native Indians, is a 
second species, but slightly noticed by travellers. 
Mr William Bullock observed it near Rio Frio, in 
the Mexican territory, and was informed by mule- 
teers, then with him, that it was the Caygotte, a 
very fierce kind of wolf: the individuals he saw 
were in size equal to a hound, of a brownish rusty- 
grey, with buff-coloured limbs, and rather a scanty 
brush. This description nearly coincides with a 
similar animal we have met on the north coast of 
South America; only the tail was dark brown, with 
a white tip, and the under parts and feet were dirty 
* The Basque name, Caygotte, bestowed by the Spaniards 
upon a Mexican canine, offers a curious coincidence with the 
indigenous name Coyotl. In Bearn and the south of France, 
Cagot is a term of contempt applied to a race of human beings 
for ages persecuted and expelled social life. It is there inter- 
preted for Ca-goth, Gothic dog or Arian, but it seems to sig- 
nify dog of the woods, or wood-hound, which is synonymous 
with Coyotl. Is it therefore another instance where these 
two remote diaiccts resemble each other ? 
