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DOG. 
9g. Wotr. 
Coxor. 
We Qk EB 
DIV. II. Digitated Quadrupeds. 
SECT -I. With Canine TEETH. 
Rapacious, Carnivorous. 
HIS T2200 FD Gen ese: 
Hifi. Quad, N° 137.—Smellie, iv. 196.—Lev. Mus. 
OG. With a long head: pointed nofe: ears fharp and erect: 
legs long: tail bufhy, bending down: hair pretty long. Color 
ufually of a pale brown, mixed with dull yellow and black. 
Inhabits the interior countries fouth of Hud/on’s Bay; and from 
thence all America, as low as Florida. There are two varieties, a greater 
and a leffer. The firft ufually confines itfelf to the colder parts. 
The latter is not above fifteen inches high*. In the more uninhabited 
parts of the country, they go in great droves, and hunt the deer 
like a pack of hounds, and make a hideous noife. They will attack 
the Buffalo; but only venture on the ftragglers. In the unfrequented 
parts of America are very tame, and will come near the few habita- 
tions in hopes of finding fomething to eat. They are often fo very 
poor and hungry, for want of prey, as to go into a fwamp and fill 
themfelves with mud, which they will difgorge as foon as they can 
get any food. 
The Wolves towards Hudjon’s Bay are of different colors; grey 
and white ; and fome black and white, the black hairs being mixed 
with the white chiefly along the back. In Canada they have been 
found entirely blackt. They are taken in the northern parts in log- 
traps, or by fpring-guns; their fkins being an article of commerce. 
In the Leverran mufeum is the head and fcull of a wolf: 
dufky and brown, formed by the natives into a helmet. The pro- 
* Du Pratz, ii. 54 + Smellie, iv, 212. : 
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