#brush wolf

A coyote (Canis latrans) crosses a small creek near Yellowstone Lake. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA

Coyote, Cuiota, Kyute, Prairie-wolf, Brush-wolf, American Jackal, Cased Wolf, Little Wolf

Canis late and

French Canadian; Coyote

Cre; Mes-cha-cha-gan-is'

Sauteaux; Mes-cha-chag'-an-is

Ojibwe; Mes-ta-cha'-gan-es

Yankton Sioux; Song-tóke-cha

Ogallala Sioux; Mee-yah-slay'-cha-lah

Mexican; Coyóte

"Cased Wolf" is the old trade name of the Coyote, because its skin was cased like that of a Muskrat, while the Gray-wolf's pelt was spread out flat like a Beaver.

The following, from F. W. Beechey's "Narrative" (1831, p. 403), is the earliest form of the word "Coyote" that I find in English print; "Wolves and Foxes are numerous, and the *Cuiotas*, or Jackalls, range about the plains at night, and prove very destructive to the Sheep."

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