The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports . AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS. PRAIRIE WOLF. CANIS LATRANS. [Plate VII.] Small Wolf. Du Pratz, Louisiana, vol. ii. p. 54.—Prairie Wolf. Lewis & Clark.—Canis , Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, i. p. , Faun. Am. bor. 73.—Barking , i. p. 260.—Philadelphia Museum. It is a subject of regret, that the information werespecting most of our native quadrupeds, and more espe-cially of those which are confined to the western portion ofthis continent, should be so exceedingly scanty and defec-tive; this is particul
The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports . AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS. PRAIRIE WOLF. CANIS LATRANS. [Plate VII.] Small Wolf. Du Pratz, Louisiana, vol. ii. p. 54.—Prairie Wolf. Lewis & Clark.—Canis , Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, i. p. , Faun. Am. bor. 73.—Barking , i. p. 260.—Philadelphia Museum. It is a subject of regret, that the information werespecting most of our native quadrupeds, and more espe-cially of those which are confined to the western portion ofthis continent, should be so exceedingly scanty and defec-tive; this is particularly the case with the subject of our pre-sent sketch; by far the greater proportion of our knowledgeof the Prairie Wolf being derived from the descriptiongiven of it by JNIr. Say, in the work above cited; and that ofDr. Richardson, in his Fauna Americana Boreali; it istrue, that it had been previously noticed by other travel-lers, but, their accounts are too succinct and confused to af-ford such data as are required, either to establish its
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