72 PROCEEDIXGS GF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



Lynx rufiis, Gmel. 

 Wild Cat. 

 Common in i^ova Scotia, New BrunsM'iek, southern Quebec 

 and Ontario. On the western side of the Rocky Mountains it 

 is represented by the vAv'x^ty fasciatus. 



Lynx Canadensis, Geoff. 

 Canada Lynx. 

 Felis Canadensis., Ricli. 

 Pi-sioo. Cree. 

 Pi-si. Saulteaux. 

 In wooiled country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and in 

 the summer migrating down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic 

 Ocean. 



CaNIS lupus OCCIDENTALIS, Rtch. 



Wolf. 

 Mu-h i-Jt U7i. Cvee. 

 Ma-ing-gun. Saulteaux. 

 Rare in Nova Scotia and Xew Brunswick, but still occasion- 

 ally seen in the wooded parts of Quebec, Ontario, the Noi'th- 

 West Territories and British Columbia. 

 Var. griseus. Grey Wolf. 



Is the common form east of the Rocky Mountains. 

 Yar. albus. White Wolf. 



On the northern barren grounds, and on the islands in the 

 Arctic Ocean and occasionally further south. 

 Yar. ater. Black Wulf. 



From the Mackenzie and Saskatchewan Rivers to the 

 Pacific coast. 



Canis laikans, Say. 

 Coyot^. 

 Mista-chagonis (big belly). Cree and Saulteaux. 

 Plains and partly wooded country throughout Manitoba and 

 the North- West Territories, though much more plentiful on 

 the Upper Saskatchewan than elsewhere ; also on the plains 

 in the southern portion of British Columbia. 



