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COYOTE , the See also:Indian name for a See also:North See also:American member of the See also:dog See also:family, also known as the See also:prairie-See also:wolf, and scientifically as Canis latrans. Ranging from See also:Canada in the north to See also:Guatemala in the See also:south, and chiefly frequenting the open plains on both sides of the See also:chain of the Rocky Mountains, the coyote, under all its various See also:local phases, is a smaller See also:animal than the true wolf, and may apparently be regarded as the New See also:World representative of the jackals, or perhaps, like the Indian wolf (C. pallipes), as a type intermediate between wolves and jackals. In addition to its inferior See also:size, the coyote is also shorter in the See also:leg than the wolf, and carries a more luxuriant coat of See also:hair. The See also:average length is about 40 in., and the See also:general See also:tone of See also:colour tawny mingled with See also:black and See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white above and whitish below, the tail having a black tip and likewise a dark gland-patch near the See also:root of the upper See also:surface. There is, however, considerable local variation both in the See also:matter of size and of colour from the typical coyote of See also:Iowa, which See also:measures about 50 in. in See also:total length and is of a full See also:rich tint. The coyote of the deserts of eastern See also:California, See also:Nevada and See also:Utah is, for instance, a smaller and paler-coloured animal, whose length is usually about 42 in. On this and other local See also:variations a number of nominal See also:species have been founded; but it is preferable to regard them in the See also:light of See also:geographical phases or races, such as the above-mentioned C. latrans estor of Nevada and Utah, C. 1. mearnsi of See also:Arizona and Sonora, and C. 1. frustor of See also:Oklahoma and the See also:Arkansas See also:River See also:district.
It is to distinguish them from the See also:grey, or See also:timber, wolves that coyotes have received the name of " prairie-wolves "; the two titles indicating the nature of the respective habitats of the two species. Coyotes are creatures of slinking and stealthy habits, living in burrows in the plains, and See also:hunting in packs at See also:night, when they utter yapping cries and See also:blood-curdling yells as they gallop. See also:Hares (" See also:jack-rabbits "), chipmunks or ground-squirrels, and mice See also:form a large portion of their See also:food; but coyotes also kill the fawns of See also:deer and See also:prongbuck, as well as See also:sage-hens and other kinds of See also:game-birds. " In the See also:flat lands," write Messrs Witmer See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
Stone and W. E. Cram, in their American Animals (1902), " they dig burrows for themselves or else take See also:possession of those already made by badgers and prairie-See also:dogs. Here in the See also:spring the See also:half-dozen or more coyote pups are brought forth; and it is said that at this See also:season the old ones systematically drive any large game they may be See also:chasing as near to their burrow, where the See also:young coyotes are waiting to be fed, as possible before killing it, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to See also:save the labour of dragging it any See also:great distance. When out after jack-rabbits two coyotes usually See also:work together. When a jack-See also:rabbit starts up before them, one of the coyotes See also:bounds away in pursuit while the other squats on his haunches and See also:waits his turn, knowing full well that the See also:hare prefers to run in a circle, and will soon come See also:round again, when the second wolf takes up the See also:chase and the other rests in his turn. . . . When hunting See also:antelope (prongbuck) and deer the coyotes spread out their See also:pack into a wide circle, endeavouring to surround their game and keep it See also:running inside their See also:ring until exhausted. Sage-hens, See also:grouse and small birds the coyote hunts successfully alone, quartering over the ground like a trained pointer until he succeeds in locating his See also:bird, when he drops flat in the grass and creeps forward like a See also:cat until See also:close enough for the final spring."
When hard put to it for food, coyotes will, it is reported, eat hips, See also:juniper-berries and other See also:wild fruits. (R.
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