532 ILLINOIS NATURAL History SURVEY BULLETIN 
About Dec. 6, 1936, a “wolf” and fox 
hunt was planned for near Morrison, 
Whiteside County. This yielded several 
gray foxes and one red fox but no coyote. 
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much may be concluded from them: that 
coyotes, wolflike dogs or occasional coyote- 
dog crosses are most commonly observed 
or captured in those counties lying along 
Fig. 24.—Head of coyote, Canis latrans, from Cook County Forest Preserve. Note length of 
tusks, shape of furred ears and streamlined skull. 
Coyotes were common around West- 
field, Clark County, in December, 1936, 
according to the Charleston Daily Cour- 
ier, and some were shot. A man said to 
be familiar with coyotes in the western 
part of the United States thought that 
some of the animals shot were too heavy 
to be coyotes and claimed they were tim- 
ber wolves. 
In June, 1939, an animal killed in a 
roundup near Decatur was exhibited as 
a “wolf” at that city and the head was 
finally brought to the Illinois Natural 
History Survey; E. A. Goldman of the 
U. S. Biological Survey determined the 
skull as that of a dog. 
Recently, Bonnell (1941) reported 10 
“Wolves and Coyotes” counted in one 
unit of the Shawnee National Forest in 
southern Illinois. 
These miscellaneous records do not by 
any means come near to exhausting the 
list of references on the subject. This 
the Des Plaines River, the Illinois River 
and the Mississippi River in the northern 
part of the state. 
MARTEN 
Martens have by pure accident been 
recorded recently from Illinois (U. S. 
Forest Service 1937). The Illinois game 
code for some of the years previous to 1941 
listed martens among the protected fur- 
bearing animals, and various journals 
copying Illinois fur laws assumed martens 
to be present in the state. The marten 
has probably been extinct in Illinois be- 
yond the memory of men now living. 
SPOTTED SKUNK 
Cory (1912) lists and maps spotted 
skunks or civets as present in southern 
Illinois, basing his judgment partly on 
a statement by another writer that they 
