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No. II. 

 MAMMALIA. 1 



By Henry W. Eeilden, F.G.S., F.R.G.S., C.M.Z.S. 



CAKNIVORA. 



1. Canis lupus (Linn.) — This animal was observed by the 

 'Polaris' Expedition in Hall Land on April 1, 1872. 2 Singu- 

 larly enough, on the same day, 1876, several wolves made their 

 appearance in the neighbourhood of the winter-quarters of the 

 ' Alert.' They were evidently following a small herd of musk- 

 oxeD, whose tracks and traces were observed in the vicinity ; 

 and that they were able at times to secure these animals was 

 shown by their clung being composed chiefly of musk-ox 

 wool and splinters of bone. Several of our sportsmen started in 

 pursuit of these wolves, but with one exception they did not 

 allow anyone to approach them within three or four hundred 

 yards. The following day, April 2, the wolves still continued 

 in the neighbourhood of the ship, and at intervals their long, 

 melancholy, but not unmusical wail reverberated from the 

 hills. After this date we saw no more of these animals till 

 May 25, when a single individual followed the sledge I was 

 with for several days as we travelled along the coast. It was 

 a most cunning beast, and eluded all our efforts to get a 

 shot at it. Subsequently I procured a skull and part of the 

 skeleton of one of these animals, which was picked up by a 



1 Extended from the 'Zoologist,' 1877, pp. 313-321, 353-361. 



2 Narr. ' Polaris.' North Polar Exp., p. 338. 



