WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 27 



Ham Ouiggle, who used to climb a certain big shellbark 

 back of their home and bark Hke a wolf, drawing 

 many brown wolves off the mountains close enough to 

 be shot. ^Vhen shown the author's tame coyotes at l\Ic- 

 Elhattan Springs Mr. Quiggle exclaimed: "Why, those 

 are the same animals that abounded on the Bald Eagle 

 ^fountain seventy )'ears ago." Query, what was the most 

 easterly limit of the coyote's range? Could it possibly 

 have been identical with the "small brown wolf" of the 

 Susquehanna \'alley, or the small brown wolf of the 

 Carolinas? Jacob Quiggle (1821-1911) older brother 

 of Robert C. Quiggle, often related to the author how 

 his brother \A'illiam called the wolves off the mountain 

 anil out of the forest to be shot. Once when Jacob 

 Ouiggle was a tiny boy he told his father of the nice 

 brown dog which followed his little sister and himself 

 to school every day. The elder Quiggle became sus- 

 picious, and accompan3'ing the children armed with a 

 shot-gun, encountered a wolf on the path. Despite the 

 children's entreaties he shot the handsome animal. 

 Colonel James W. Quiggle was fond of relating how 

 at nightfall, especially in cold weather, the wolves 

 howled along the foot of the Bald Eagle Mountains at 

 ;\IcElhattan, in Clinton County. The stress laid on 

 the "barking" of these brown wolves is another point 

 in favor of the possibility of their being "prairie 

 wolves" or coyotes. Daniel Ott, born May 27, 1S2U. 

 pioneer hunter of Selin's Grove, Snyder County, states 

 that wolves were plentiful along the Susquehanna 

 when he was a boy. They sometimes barked from the 

 top of the Blue Hill at the good people across the river 



