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of the coyote, but less hairy and with a less bushy tail. They 

 were much like those lately observed in Mexico, and I have 

 never seen such dogs elsewhere. Their color was a whitish 

 tawny, like that of the Eskimo dog. 



Confirmatory of these observations is the following note 

 by J. L. Wortman in the report of the Geological Survey of 

 Indiana for 1884: "During extended travel in Western 

 XJ. S. my experience has been the same as that recorded by 

 Dr. Coues. It is by no means uncommon to find mongrel 

 dogs among many of the Western Indian tribes, notably 

 among Umatillas, Bannocks, Shoshones, Arrapahoes, Crows, 

 Sioux, which to one familiar with the color, physiognomy 

 and habits of the coyote, have every appearance of blood 

 relationship, if not, in many cases, this animal itself in a 

 state of semi-domestication. The free inter-breeding of 

 these animals, with a perfectly fertile product, has been so 

 often repeated to me by thoroughly reliable authorities and 

 whose opportunities for observation were ample, that I feel 

 perfectly willing to accept Dr. Coues' statement." 



To these statements may be added that of Mr. Milton P. 

 Pierce, published in Forest and Stream for June 25, 1885, as 

 follows : " Hybrid wolves have always been very common 

 along our Western frontiers. I have seen several of them, 

 sired both by dogs and wolves, and all I have seen have re- 

 sembled wolves rather than dogs." It is to be hoped that, 

 our mammalogists may collect and examine this subject, 

 particularly the skulls and skins of numerous specimens 

 both of dogs and wolves and of the hybrids between them. 

 Farther observations are also needed as to the fertility of 

 the hybrids. 



Notes on Pleistocene Fossils from Anticosti. 



By Lieut.-Col. C. E. Grant and Sir W- Dawson. 



The late Mr. Eichardson of the Geological Survey, to whom 

 we owe most of our knowledge of the geology of Anticosti, 

 notices in his Eeport for 1857, the occurrence of travelled 

 boulders and of beds of clay, holding rounded fragments of 



