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Show TOLD ABOUT WOLYES. LOS ANOELES IS PESTEHED WITH OOVOTEB. On. of Ihe fatrrralln- anci Tj.ltl .! mal of lb- Weal ML ( nni.lus ami (Ireat S-l Only Upvrl nf VI Mil IK.lt, (Special Utter.) One of tho Interesting and typical animals or the far west la the American Ameri-can wild Jog, lowland wolf or coyoto, It being known under these and other titles, While a very ronimon animal, It la rarely well figured In the book, and la mailo to look more foxlike than wolflih. The accompanying Illustration Illustra-tion give a correct Idea o! a young mate two-thirds grown. In general appearance It resembles the typical wolf, tho fur being a dull yellowish gray, with dark, even black, clouded pota; beneath It In itomctlnira reddish and white. The coyote la -virtually a wild dog and breeds with the domestic dog,and dogs will often refuse to Injure tho female fe-male coyote. Huxley contends that there Is no material dlfTereuce between tho skull of n coyoto and that of a dog, and a cross between a collie and an a typical coyote. Eskimo dog produces n very fair coyote, coy-ote, so far na appearances go. "Don Coyote" Is isscnllally a night animal, DnthQouts)drls of Pasadena, Pasa-dena, Cal., a city of 15,000 Inhabitants, bo comes boldly up the bordering streets, evading the dogs the best ho can; now glvlntf them a wild chacc, then stopping In some vacant lot and dtfylng the town, and with hind aloft yelping to (he moon, At such llino tho yelps come In such quick succession that they fairly overrun one another, and seem echoed buck und repeated from every hill, rocli and bluff. Ono roust give Don Coyote credit for much Intelligence, as on one occasion at least lie led hounds and hara-s uut of the way to a barbed wire fence, pissing under It himself but witnessing the complete demoralization of the hunt as ha bounded away While the coyoto hunta singly In towna or villages, he runs In packs In the open, and It Is hero that be demonstrates his skill and cunning. A naturalist once observed a pack of coyotea on thu edge of the desert manipulating n Jack rabbit They swept ucruss tho country In n line, soon starting a hare, then formed kt two parallel lines about 200 feet ooart. There was a regular plan of action, and nono of the coyotes seemed aver-exclted, but when the hare was started they wheeled Into columns, llko soldiers, the leading coyote running run-ning at the top of his spesd. After a few moments he dropped to the rear and a fresh coyote took the lend; and Hits was kept up until the hare was run down. The rhnse was n sllcut one. Tills method recalls the wild dogs of Australia, or dingo |