SOUTIT AMERICAN WOLVES 
than does the timber wolf. On the other hand it does good 
service by its ceaseless destruction of rabbits, prairie dogs, and 
similar pests, as has been well shown by Lantz.’ No livelier 
A FAMILY OF COYOTES. 
From a photograph of a mounted group in the National Museum. 
account of coyote hunting exists than that written by President 
Roosevelt of his sport in 1905.18 
South America has certain other wolves and “fox dogs” 
not very well known. The most remarkable one, perhaps, is 
the maned or red wolf of the forests north of the 
Pampas, which is about the size of the common 
wolf, but not so heavy, its height being due to its long, ungainly 
legs, which give it a stilted appearance. In the Falkland 
Islands there formerly dwelt an isolated, burrowing, coyotelike 
“antarctic” wolf, long ago exterminated. The fox dogs proper 
form a group of small canine animals, five species of which are 
recognized by Mivart..” They are much alike in their foxy 
appearance, though rather larger in size than a fox, and more 
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Fox Dog. 
