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report of the bounty paid during the year 1916. During 

 that year bounties were paid for the destruction of 18,515 

 coyotes for the following counties : Beaver, 864 ; Box Elder, 

 2133; Cache, 355; Carbon, 210; Davis, 52; Duchesne, 360 

 Emery, 522; Garfield, 370; Grand, 164; Iron, 2356; Juab 

 1017; Kane, 377; Millard, 2105; Morgan, 171; Piute, 256 

 Rich, 429; Salt Lake, 282; San Juan, 338; Sanpete, 682 

 Sevier, 447 ; Summit, 652 ; Tooele, 985 ; Uintah, 1136 ; Utah, 

 745; Wasatch, 590; Washington, 399; Wayne, 298, and 

 Weber, 220. Under the vigilant work of the Biological 

 Survey there has recently, been a marked decrease in the 

 number of coyotes in this state. 



Habits — Coyotes are less courageous and have less of 

 the social instinct than gray wolves, and on the rare occas- 

 ions when they do hunt in packs they form, no doubt, a 

 family party, including the young of the year. They appear 

 to pair more or less permanently and commonly hunt in 

 couples. The young, sometimes numbering as many as 

 fourteen, are born in a burrow dug in a bank, or in a den 

 among broken rocks and ledges. Young animals are readi- 

 ly tamed, and it is entirely probable that some of the dogs 

 found by early explorers among Western Indians may have 

 descended from coyotes. (Nelson.) 



Coyote skins are worth from $1.00 to $28.00 each 

 according to size and quality. These are the prices offered 

 by the raw fir dealers of St. Louis. 



LONG-TAILED FOX: WESTERN 

 RED FOX 



VULPES FULVA MACROURA (Baird) 



Vulpes Utah Aud. and Bach. Pr. A. N. Sc. Ph. V, June 30, 1852; 



N. A. Quad. Ill, 1853, 255. 

 Vulpes macrourus Baird, Stansb., Expl. Great Salt Lake, Utah, 



1852, p. 309. 

 Vulpes pennsylvanica macroura Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm. 



F. C. M. Pub., 11, 1901, p. 305. 



Description — This magnificent fox, the finest species 

 known, is an inhabitant of the central portions of North 

 America, and is eminently remarkable for the beauty and 

 excellence of its fur. Very similar in general appearance 

 to the common red fox, its superiority in size will at once 

 readily distinguish it. In the light variety the prevailing 

 tint is rather a pale ochre yellow than a red, whence the 



