- Muzzle blackish.
- Head greyish, face back or eyes sharply pepper and salt grey.
- Ears large, back of ears dusky at tip, fulvous at base.
- Eyes and nose pad small.
- Tail with tip black at all ages.
Kit Fox Pups.
- Muzzle with blackish patch on each side.
- Head and face tawny or yellowish brown.
- Ears tawny without black backs or tips.
- Eyes larger and nose pad smaller than in young coyote.
- Tail with tip black at all ages.
KEY TO YOUNG CATS, COONS AND BADGERS.
- Young bobcats are much striped and spotted. Young cats of any kind can be distinguished by the short nose and round head.
- Young coons have a broad black band across the face and eyes bordered above by a light band.
- Young badgers have a white stripe between the eyes.
The bounty laws have always been a good thing for the trapper as they have helped much towards making his occupation a lucrative one, but, as before explained, it is doubtful if it has ever, in any marked degree, tended to decrease the numbers of predatory animals.
It is true that continued trapping will cause the numbers of wolves and coyotes to diminish, but would not the trapping be prosecuted practically the same, even if there were no bounties? We believe that it would, for if the bounty offered were any great incentive, there would be more trapping done during the summer when the furs were of no account.
Neither do we believe that it ever induces others, not trappers, to kill these animals, for they will kill them on every opportunity, bounty or no bounty. It is man's nature to kill, for he is the enemy of all animal life.