The next day was spent in hunting jack-rabbits, coyotes, elks, antelopes and wild turkeys.

Seven years ago I used to go up there every year, to shoot prairie chickens, coyotes and elk.

Think of thatall where the coyotes howled a few years ago!

But them coyotes thet live off the land an' pretend to be American when they ain'tthey make me pisen mad.

"Go to the coyotes," he muttered.

"I have also heard that the introduction of dog distemper played havoc with wolves, coyotes, and Indian dogs, when it first came into the country.

"There is one isolated bunch of mountain sheep on the Colorado Desert, situated in Fremont and Sweetwater counties, Wyo., which seems to be holding its own against many range riders, meat and specimen hunters, as well as coyotes.

After the body has been crammed into the smallest possible space the rock or stump is again rolled into its former position, when a number of stones are placed around the base to keep out the coyotes.

He gives as reasons for rock burial: 1st, to prevent coyotes eating the corpses; 2d, because they have no tools for deep excavations; and 3d, natural indolence of the Indiansindisposition to work any more than can be helped.

Another myth regarding cremation is given by Adam Johnston in Schoolcraft and relates to the Bonaks, or root-diggers: The first Indians that lived were coyotes.

The old coyotes or Indians, fearing the earth might become depopulated in this way, concluded to stop it at once and ordered that when one of their people died the body must be burnt.

"The blankets," said he with a fine Californian scorn of much absurd insensibility to such a good bargain, "the blankets that the American offered him $16 for were not worth half the money." After death the Se-nél hold that bad Indians return into coyotes.

Coyotes, ravens, and other carnivores soon remove all the flesh so that there remains nothing but the bones, and even these are scattered by the wolves.

Even at close range, a well-centered bird would, when hard hit, pull himself together as his feathers flew in the breeze, and sail away out into some mountain side, quite out of reach of the hunter, undoubtedly to die and furnish food for the buzzards or coyotes.

In view of the ravages by snakes, hawks, weasles, skunks, wildcats and coyotes I do not see how there are any quail left for the sportsmen.

His father remembered when they had killed cattle for their hides and tallow, leaving the meat to the coyotes.

And Mexicans are so mean that even coyotes won't touch them.

He was pretty well dried out to begin with, but the coyotes wouldn't have a thing to do with him, and so he just dried up into a mummy.

Another way to catch wolves and coyotes was to set heavy stakes in the ground in a circle, about the carcasses of one or two dead buffalo.

Hugh Monroe tells me that, about thirty years ago, he and his sons made a trap like this, and in one night caught eighty-three wolves and coyotes.

This applies both to wolves and coyotes.

Coyotes, how taken.

Over it for a few nights the coyotes and grey wolves howled and fought; then would come a fresh layer of white, and the spot where it had been would merge once more into the universal colour scheme.

Reckon you'll find your friend out there, if the coyotes ain't got to him.

We were completely bewildered with its physical properties, and surprised at the abundance of wild horses and mustangs, deer, coyotes, foxes, grouse and other birds, and overjoyed to find innumerable lion trails.