246 The Wolverene. 



his head, by which he was immediately secured and strangled.'^ 

 The animal had evidently become desperate by extreme himg-er. 



Audubon says : " We have seen this species in confinement in 

 Europe; the specimens came, we are informed, from the north of 

 that continent. In Denmark, a keeper of a small caravan of 

 animals, allowed us the privilege of examining a Wolverene which 

 he had exhibited for two years ; we took him out of his cage ; 

 he was very gentle, opened his mouth to enable us to examine his 

 teeth, and buried his head in our lap whilst we admired his long 

 claws, and felt his woolly feet ; he seemed pleased to escape from 

 the confinement of the cage, ran round us in short circles, and 

 made awkward attempts to play with and caress us, which re- 

 minded us very much of the habit of the American black bear. He 

 had been taught to sit upon his haunches and hold in his mouth 

 a German pipe. We observed he was somewhat averse to the light 

 of the sun, keeping his eyes wholly closed when exposed to its rays. 

 The keeper informed us that he suffered a good deal from the 

 heat in warm weather, that he drank water freely, and ate meat 

 voraciously, but consumed more in winter than in summer. There 

 was in the same cage a marmot from the Alps, to which the Wol- 

 verene seemed much attached. When returned to the ca£re he 

 rolled himself up like a ball, his long shaggy hairs so completely 

 covering his limbs that he presented the aj)pearance of a bear 

 skin rolled up into a bundle." 



" The Wolverene produces young once a year in number from 

 two to four, and the cubs are covered with a downy fur of a pale 

 cream colour." (Richardson.) The fur bears a great similarity to 

 that of the black bear, but is not so lonor nor of so much value. 



The Glutton {Gulo luseiis) is the Carcajou of La Hontan and the French 

 Canadians; Quiokhatch (Ursulo affinis jimericana) of Gateshj (Carolina)' 

 Quickhatch of the English residents at Hudson's Bay ; Quickhateh, or 

 Wolverene, of Ellis; Wolverene of Pennant; Wolverin, Quiquihateh, or 

 Carcajou, of Graham (manuscripts); Kablee-arioo of the Esquimaux of 

 Melville Peninsula; Ka e week of the Esquimaux of Boothia Felix; Nag- 

 hai-eh of the Chippeways ; Ommeethatsees, Okeeeoohagew, and Okeecoo- 

 hawgees (whence, as Sir John Richardson observes, the term Quickhatch of 

 the European labourers in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company is evi- 

 dently derived), of the Crees, or Algonquins; Rosomakofthe Russians; 

 Jarf, Filfress, of the 'Fauna Suecica'; Timmi of the Kamtschatkans ; Haep- 

 pi of the Koratzki ; Glouton of the French ; Gulo of Olaus Magnus ; Gulo, 

 Vielfrass, of Gener ; Hycena and Ursus Freti Hndsonis of Brisson ; BTustela 

 Gulo and Ursus luscus of Linnaeus ; Ursus Gulo of Pallas and Graelin ; 

 Taa;ws G'm^o of Tiedemann; Gulo arcticus oiDesmsLvest; Gulo vulgaris ot 

 Griffith's Cuvier ; Gulo luscus of Sabine. 



