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THE PRAIRIE WOLF. 
are beyond the reach of man. The common color of the 
species is grayish-white, but it varies all the way from pure 
white to deep black. 
The Prairie Wolf or Cayote {^Canis latrans) is well 
known to all Western travelers. Beyond the Missouri river 
they range in packs of from five or six to twenty, from Mexico 
well up into British America. They are intermediate in size 
between the Fox and Gray Wolf, and live mostly on the car- 
casses which are found upon the plains. 
The Common Wolf {Cams lupus) of Europe, resembles 
the Gray Wolf. A specimen in the Garden, from Italy, is 
smaller in size, being not much larger than the Cayote. 
South America possesses several species of small Wolves, 
very fox-like in some of their characters. By some naturalists 
