. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history -- California. American Giant Wolf. Canis occidentalis. The canine group is represented by the wolf, two species, the coyote, the fox and the domestic dog. The coyote and wolf are extinct, but the fox is quite likely our living gray species. The great wolf was an exceedingly large one, even excelling our largest living specimens. Judging from the strength of the bones it must have been more clumsy and less fleet than our coyotes. Of this wolf, little has heretofore been found, except a few teet
. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history -- California. American Giant Wolf. Canis occidentalis. The canine group is represented by the wolf, two species, the coyote, the fox and the domestic dog. The coyote and wolf are extinct, but the fox is quite likely our living gray species. The great wolf was an exceedingly large one, even excelling our largest living specimens. Judging from the strength of the bones it must have been more clumsy and less fleet than our coyotes. Of this wolf, little has heretofore been found, except a few teeth which were dis- covered in Indiana and Texas. Here in the brea beds the bones are numerous. Sufficient numbers have been unearthed to complete several 'entire skeletons. The smaller species, much fewer in number, are close relatives of our timber wolf of which there are probably only varieties. The coyote is new, but it may have been ancestral to our present form. The fox was a very small one and was perhaps the individual ancestor of our present-day gray fox, or maybe only a variety of the same species. The dog family, like the cat family has had a very wide dis- tribution. It is found in every part of the world, as well as in fossil forms. 26. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Southern California Academy of Sciences. Los Angeles, Calif. : The Academy
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