DOG. 
their dogs, and guard their necks with fpiked col¬ 
lars : wolves are_ profcribed animals, deftroyed by 
pit-falls, traps or poifon : a peafant in France , who 
kills a wolf, carries its head thro’ the villages, and 
collects fome fmall reward from the inhabitants : the 
Kirghis-Khaijfacks take the wolves by the help of 
a large fort of hawk called Berkut , which is trained 
for the diyerfion, and will fallen on them and tear 
out their eyes*. 
The Coy oil ** of New Spain is a fmall fpecies of 
wolf; very fierce and ravenous : of a fize between a 
wolf and a fox. 
Mexican Wolf. Xoloizcuintli dedu&is. Briffon quad. 172. 
Hernandes Mex. 479. Canis mexicanus. C. cauda de* 
Cuetlachtli, feu lupus indicus. flexa laevi, corpore cinereo, faf- 
Fernandez An. No<v. Hifp . 7. _ ciis fufcis, maculifque fulvis va- 
Canis cinereus, maculis. fulvis riegato. Lin.Jyf. 60. 
variegatus, taeniis fubnigris a Le Loup de Mexique. dt Bujfon, 
dorfo ad latera deorfum hinc inde xv. 149. 
D. with a very large head : great jaws : vafl teeth: 
on the upper lips very llrong briftles, reflected back¬ 
wards, not unlike the fofter fpines of a porcupine; 
and of a grey and white color : large, eredt, cine¬ 
reous ears *, the fpace between marked with broad 
tawny fpots: the head alii colored, llriped tranf- 
verfely with bending dulky lines: neck fat and 
thick, covered with a loofe ikin, marked with a 
long tawny llroke: on the breall is another of the 
fame kind : body afh colored, fpotted with black 
* Ritchkoff fopog. Orenb. I. 282. 
* * Cojotl feu wipes indica . Fernandez Nov. Hifp, 4. 
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