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5, 6, 7, 8. P'our examples brought home by Capt. 

 Fitzroy, R.N., and Sir Wm. Burnet in 1836. Two 

 of these (one if ^not both being from East Falkland) 

 were presented to the British Museum by their joint 

 owners, and the East Falkland specimen will be 

 found figured in Mivart's " Monograph of the 

 Canidae." One of these was delineated in 1839 by 

 Waterhouse in his " Zoology of the Voyage of the 

 Beagle." The short tail contrasts sharply with the 

 ampler brush of the Canis magellanicus, also figured. 



9. Skull in Royal College of Surgeons' Museum, 

 presented by Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort. 



10. An adult specimen brought home by Ross in 

 1843 is now in the Leyden Museum. This collection 

 also contains (11) an adult female obtained — so it is 

 said — from "South America." "Par M. Frank en 

 livree de passage." 



12. Specimen received alive and exhibited in the 

 London Zoological Gardens in 1845. Probably the 

 first living example ever seen in Europe. 



13. Adult female and skull obtained in 1863 by 

 Capt. Abbot's expedition : now at Leyden. 



14. 15. A pair of Antarctic wolves were obtained 

 alive in 1867-8 by Lecomte, who had been sent to 

 the Falklands to collect sea-lions and other animals 

 for the London Zoological Gardens. Having spent 

 some months on the islands, Lecomte left for Morrte 

 Video in the "Fawn" with a great collection of 



