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quite slim ; he has large tusks, a fine set of teeth, a 

 mouth split well back ; he has a treacherous rolling 

 eye, very keen ; he is heavily built through the butt of 

 jaws; ears about four inches long, inclined to be thick 

 and stand up on his head like a fox's ears. He is 

 quite deep through the chest and well cut up in the 

 flanks. He is thin through the chest, body and hams. 

 The shape of his body after being skinned is similar to 

 the body of a fox, only very much larger. His hair or 

 fur is" long but not coarse. It gives him a shaggy ap- 

 pearance. His tail is long and shaggy. A full grown 

 wolf of this species will weigh from 60 to SO pounds. 

 There have been some larger ones caught in this sec- 

 tion weighing as high as 90 pounds. I saw a western 

 timber wolf in the Zoo at Buflfalo, N. Y., in Alarch, 

 1914, and it seemed to pie slightly bigger than the grey 

 wolf of Northern Pennsylvania. But it may have 

 been better fed. Their main hold on a sheep or deer 

 (except a buck deer with antlers) is the throat, which 

 they will hang to, giving the animal a few violent 

 shakes which will make their necks creak until the 

 animal stops struggling, then he will let go. If he is a 

 cripple he will proceed to take a meal, but if he belongs 

 to a den where there are young whelps he will look 

 for a chance to kill another sheep, and if he can't see 

 any more to kill he will take a meal and hike and won't 

 return to any of the dead sheep again or visit this sec- 

 tion again that season, unless he can come in on the 

 opposite side of that field ; then it is fresh mutton for 

 him. He will not visit any of the old carcasses. The 



