THE LIVING WORLD. 
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the edge of a jungle skirting a pond, and when a deer had rendered itself 
heavy by large draughts of watery to head it off at each new attempt to enter the 
jungle, and to keep it moving about the pond until it dropped through sheer 
exhaustion. 
CARNIVORA.—WOLVES. 
The Maikong (Cams cancrivorus) is a crab-eating fox-wolf, found in 
Guiana, where it runs in small packs. . _ , . _ , 
The Guara (Cams jubatus), or Hyena Fox-wolf, is found m South 
America. It is a yellowish-red, is solitary, about five feet long, wears a black and 
red mane, a white spot under the head, and is very fierce. It is called the 
aguara ailpea. 
The Wolf (Cams lupus ) 
is known in all countries 
and has earned a reputation 
which would be better if cue 
stopped to reflect that he 
lives the life for which he 
was created. 
The Indian Wolf (Cauls 
pallipes) resembles the jackal. 
The Wolf of the Pyrenees 
is black. The French Wolf 
is brown. The Russian 
Wolf wears whiskers on 
throat and cheek, and the 
Italian Wolf is red. 
The Tanate (Cam's pro- 
cyonoides) belongs to China 
and Japan, and is often 
called the raccoon dog. 
The Gray American 
Wolf ( Cams occldentalls) re¬ 
sembles the European wolf, 
although its size is less. It 
varies in coloring and form 
in different parts of the coun¬ 
try, and is valuable as illus¬ 
trating this doctrine of the creation of varieties from species (not classes 
from orders). 
The Coyote, or Prairie Wolf, or Cajote (Cams latrans ), is a familiar 
object on the plains of western North America, and his howl, sufficiently 
blood-curdling in itself, is always taken up without break by at least two or 
three others in succession. Like the rest of the wolf family he finds his 
hunger unappeasable by food, and hence he is always in quest of ^ more, like 
Oliver Twist at Do-the-Boys Hall. His sneaking persistency and his guardian 
care over the hunter and his supplies, render him an object of detestation so 
intense as to prevent the recognition of his excellences, when viewed as 
abstract qualities. 
The wolf displays the greatest suspicion of traps and spring-guns, and is 
