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previous winter, picking these up in the woods at the points 

 where he had killed and skinned them. Of two he was able to 

 tell me the sex. I also purchased from Mr. Smith, at Friendly 

 Cove, the skin of a wolf brought in by the Indians during the 

 previous winter, and killed somewhere in the immediate vicinity. 

 At this point wolves had been so abundant for some years past 

 that the deer had been almost completely driven out. During 

 the two weeks of our stay here we saw fresh deer tracks on only 

 one or two occasions. No live deer were seen by either of us, but 

 the Indians killed one on an island nearby, where another was 

 seen. 



At Great Central Lake, on the night of August 28, a wolf 

 was heard howling nearly all night. 



The skin secured at Nootka (no. 13005) was evidently of a 

 large specimen ; the tanned skin measures 1850 mm. in length. 

 The general appearance is of a gray animal, lighter on the sides 

 and legs, and darker on the head, back and tail. Head, muzzle, 

 and ears dark "pepper-and-salt." Hairs on neck, hack and 

 upper surface of the tail, yellowish-white basally, and black 

 tipped for about the terminal third of their length. A small 

 proportion of the hairs on the back, and a great many of those on 

 the sides of the neck, are entirely white; those at the tip of the 

 tail, black almost their entire length, so that the tail appears 

 decidedly black-tipped. Sides, belly and legs abruptly paler, 

 yellowish white. Inner surface of Tegs almost pure white. There 

 is a narrow, dusky streak on the front of each fore leg. The 

 hind legs are immaculate. Hair between the toes chestnut. The 

 body is everywhere covered with thick gray under fur. The long 

 hairs of the neck and back are from three to four inches in length. 



Cranial Measurements of Canis occidentals from Vancouver Island 



