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gratitude, nor any of that responsive attachment 
that makes the well-bred dog so lovable as a friend. 
Moreover, in spite of his natural subtlety and 
shrewdness, he shows little aptitude for learning 
the ordinary accomplishments of dogs, and so fails 
to sustain an interest in him after the novelty 
of first acquaintance passes off. Perhaps this 
seeming inaptitude is really unwillingness, since 
he may easily regard the things sought to be taught 
him as beneath his serious attention. If so, the 
fact that he is occasionally seen as one of the 
showman’s performing animals is all the more 
noticeable; since unquestionably he could say to 
the audience, — 
“T could show you a trick worth two o’ that.” 
Norte. — Recently the prairie wolves, formerly regarded as 
a single species (Cazzs latrans), have been re-classified in 
several species and subspecies, the names and distinctions of 
which may be learned from Dr. D. G. Elliot’s “Synopsis of 
Mammals,” — a storehouse of technical descriptions of North 
American mammals. The publications of the United States 
Department of Agriculture, since 1899, have contained much 
information as to the habits of coyotes, especially Bailey’s 
“ Biological Survey of Texas,” and Lantz’s “Coyotes in their 
Economic Relations.” The hunting of these small wolves has 
been the subject of many recent essays, — none better than a 
chapter in Roosevelt's “Pastimes of an American Hunter.” 
A large collection of Indian myths and legends in which this 
animal is the hero may be studied in Power’s “Indians of 
California,” and in Powell’s “Exploration of the Colorado 
River,” both published by the Government. 
