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Identifier: californiafishga511919cali (find matches)
Title: California fish and game
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game California. Fish and Game Commission California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries Game and game-birds Fishes
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc.) : State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ttoral form. So far as a preliminary e.xamination of the material taken by the■Albacore together with that obtained from the Seri;)ps Institutiongoes, it appears that the early life history of the California spiny lobsterIS in a fair way of solution. A full report of the results of the summerswork is in i)reparation. 26 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. THE COYOTE AS A DEER KILLER. By E. V. JOTTER. Although we have long known the coyote as a predatory animal it hasonly been recently that we have obtained evidence of its destructivenessto big game. Heretofore known as a destroyer of quail, grouse anddomestic stock such as pigs, sheep and poultry, the coyote must now beclassified along with the mountain lion as a deer slayer. In that many persons have been slow to believe that the coyote is afactor in our deer supply we have attempted to gather some evidencetending to prove that this animal is responsible for a considerable losseach year in Trinity County. This evidence is presented herewith.
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Fig. IS. Male coyote taken iii liap January -^ 1. ivls, 14 miles south of Douglas,Trinity County, California, by C. O. Fisher. The stomach contained deer hairand meat. Photograph by C. O. Fisher. Bert Higgins, who i-uns a trap line within the Trinity Game Refuge,reports finding along this one line during one month, the remains offifteen deer killed by coyotes. Ranger Bucklew in April, 1916, saw afull grown doe. apparently in good condition, pulled down by onecoyote. Mr. Wm. Friend writes as follows concerning his experience withcoyotes in the Game Refuge : In regard to the deer I found killed by coyotes in the Game Refuge, will sayI commenced trapping between Little Creek and Bear Cieek on February 1, 1916,and between that date and March 2, 1916, I found the remains of seventeen deerkilled by coyotes. They were all sizes from large bucks to fawns, but mostly small deer. The snowwas about two feet deep and the deer had collected near the river and in gulches.After the snow settled the

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