This is their usual colour, though, like other animals, there are varieties.
They have thick bushy tails, black at the tips, and one-third the length of their bodies.

They resemble the dogs found among the prairie Indians, of which they are, no doubt, the progenitors.

They are met with throughout all the regions from the Mississippi westward to the Pacific, and southward into Mexico.

They hunt in packs, like the jackals; and will run down deer, buffaloes, or any other animals which they think they can master.

They dare not attack a buffalo in the herd, though packs of them always follow a drove of these animals.