_Specimens examined_ (8).--North Cave Hills, 1; N of Slim Buttes, 1; N
end Slim Buttes, 1; 6 mi. N, 4 mi. W Camp Crook, 2; W of East Short Pine
Hills, 1; E of Short Pine Hills, 1; Sheep Mountain, 1.
The coyote population in Harding County and adjacent areas is low owing
to an active predator control program that is supported by local
ranchers and by state and federal agencies. Our field parties neither
saw nor heard coyotes, although tracks were found at one or two places
in March of 1963. According to Robert Kriege (personal communication),
the few coyotes that do reside in the area find refuge in the most
rugged parts of the hills and buttes. Visher (1914:90) reported that
this carnivore was "generally considered as abundant." Our specimens all
are skulls of individuals killed by a federal trapper in the winter of
1961-62.
~Canis lupus nubilus~ Say, 1823