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APPENDIX. 



[No. V. 



Gmelin with the North American Otter, probably correctly, though that animal has 

 usually been considered only an inhabitant of the warmer parts of the New Continent. 



Cards Lupus. Wolf. 



Wolves 



interior of North America, that it is but reasonable to doubt, whether some may not 



Wolf. 



Lupus, of the northern portion of the globe ; the usual colour of which is reddish 

 brown varying occasionally to black. Besides the two animals which fell into the hands 

 of the Expedition, and which will be successively particularly noticed, Dr. Richardson 



smaller than the Fox, which was not uncommon in the plains in 

 the southern parts of the country visited by Captain Franklin ; and neither of these 



* 



Wolf 



Wolves seen at Melville 



White W 



►If taken by Captain Franklin's party at Fort Enterprise. Thus we appear 

 to have knowledge of four kinds, all to be met within the districts visited by the 

 Expedition. During the stay of the travellers at Cumberland-House in the first 

 winter of the journey, very satisfactory information was obtained, confirming the 

 observations made during Captain Parry's residence on Melville Island, of the 

 readiness which Wolves shewed to have intercourse with domestic Dogs. This 

 circumstance was fully known to the settlers, as well as that the produce of such 

 intercourse possessed all the character of perfect animals, and was not considered as 

 the production of two species. If such confirmation of what was before known had 

 been required, the present information would fully establish the point of the specific 



Wolf 



and Dog, and does away the possibility of specific differences 

 Wolves, which thus are known to connect themselves with 



the domestic Dogs. A few skins of Wolves 



Hudson 



Canis Lupus — Griseus. Grey Wolf. 



Grey Wolves are common in the neighbourhood of Cumberland-House, a magnificent 

 specimen of one was caught in a trap, during the residence of the Expedition at that 

 place in January 1820. The skin was preserved and reached England safe. It is 



ry dissimilar in colour to the usual state of the Wolf, and is of much greater size, 

 dimensions are as follows : length to the setting on of the tail, four feet ; tail 

 fourteen inches ; height to the top of the shoulders two feet. The teeth are remark- 

 ably strong and large ; the ears sharp and erect, thickly clothed with dark-brown 

 hair tipped with grey ; above and below on the neck, the hair is thick and bushy ; 



it 



some 



grey 



