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WIDE RANGE OF THE COYOTE Stefansson says that coyotes for the first time in history have appeared in the Arctic Red River coun ¬ try within 100 miles of the polar ocean This state ¬ ment has excited the wonder of the naturalists be ¬ cause It shows an unexpected extension of the northern range of the prairie wolf but the progress of this animal into the formerly forested eastern section of the United States is just as remarkable Coyotes have been killed sis far east as western New York and Pennsylvania and in Michigan their invasion has been so rapid as to warrant apprehen ¬ sion Instead of lieing a western plains animal jisthe dictionaries state they are today makng the fdntiiieut of North America their own
