THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
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Catalogue with appended notes, on the animals collected in North West 
America, by J. K. Lord, F.Z.S., and presented to the Loyal Artillery 
Institution, by Captain Haig, B.A., late of the British North American 
Boundary Commission . 
Lynx, canadensis .—(Eaf.) 
Canada Lynx. Common on both the eastern and western slope of the Cascade 
Mountains and on the western side of the Eocky Mountains. Found also on 
Vancouver Island. 
I never obtained more than one species, although I have seen skins in the 
Hudson’s Bay Company Stores, that I imagined were v. Maculatus or Texas wild 
cat of Aud. and Bach, but I never succeeded in obtaining a perfect specimen, so as 
to compare the skull and teeth, yet I feel quite sure that two well marked species 
are common to this district. 
Canis latrans .—(Say.) 
Prairie Wolf.—Cayote. I have called this small grey wolf, latrans. It is 
found abundantly between the Cascades and Eocky Mountains, and on the west side 
of the Cascade and coast range. I am rather disposed to think it may be a distinct 
species, but having no means of comparing it with specimens from Texas and 
Mexico, I must leave it an open question. It has its young in burrows in April, 
and is beyond aE question the progenitor of the Indian dog, and appears to be a 
connecting link between the true wolf and the fox j two other species are common. 
Lupus griseus , Lupus occidentals. 
Vulpes macrourus.— (Baird .) 
Prairie Fox.—Large-tailed Fox. Found on both sides of the Cascade 
Mountains, and on the western slope of the Eocky Mountains, reaching an altitude 
of about 8000 feet above the sea level, has its young in burrows, usually from three 
to four, in April or May. 
(var.) decussatus. 
Cross Fox. Not quite as plentiful, but in habits, and range, the same as v. 
Macrourus . 
(var.) — argentatus . 
Silver Fox. In every particular the same as v. decussatus . 
It is worthy of note that the fox is quite unknown on Vancouver Island, why, I 
am at a loss to imagine, as the wolf is rather common. 
I quite agree with Professor Baird in making the red fox of Oregon and British 
Columbia a distinct species, and in considering the cross and silver foxes as 
varieties of the red. I have carefully examined large numbers of skins at the 
various trading posts of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and find every intermediate 
tint of colour merging by regular gradations, from the red into the cross, and from the 
cross into the silver and black, rendering it often a difficult question even for the 
trader himself to decide, which of the varieties a skin really belonged to. The 
Indians also positively assert, that frequently cubs of the different varieties are 
found in the same litter. 
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