CHAPTER II. 



Subfamily MUSTELINE: The Wolverene. 



The genus Guh — Generic characters— &m/o luscus, the Wolverene — Syn- 

 onymy — Habitat — Specific characters — Description of external charac- 

 ters — Measurements — Anal glands — Description of the skull and teeth — 

 Measurements of skulls, European and American — Nomenclature of the 

 species — Relation of the European and American animal — General his- 

 tory, geographical distribution, and habits of the species — Its distribu- 

 tion in the Old World. 



HAVING already presented the characters of the subfamily 

 Mustelince with detail sufficing for present purposes, I may 

 at once proceed to consider the genera composing the group. 

 These are : Gulpj^ GaUctis; Mustela; Putorius. The second of 

 these is not^ represented in North America. Putorius is sus- 

 ceptible of division into several subgenera. These genera will 

 be treated in successive chapters, the present being devoted to 

 the genus Gido. 



The Genus GULO. (Storr, 1780.) 



< Mustela, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 10th ed. 1758, and of many authors. 

 -"«; I'rsus, Linn. Syst. Xat. i. 10th ed. 1758, and of some authors. 



< Meles, Pall. Spic. Zool. xiv. 1780 ; also of Boddcert, 1784. 



-«K.£tUlO, Storr* Prod. Meth. Mamm. 17S0, and of late authors generally. (From Klein.) 



< Taxus, Tiedem. Zool. i. 1808. 



*' This extremely rare work has lately been made the subject of a critical 

 essay by Prof. T. Gill, who examined a copy in the library of the Surgeon- 

 Oeneral, U. S. Army, at Washington ("On the ' Prodromus Methodi Mam- 

 malium ' of Storr". By Theodore Gill. Extracted from the Bulletin of the 

 Philosophical Society of Washington, October, 1874. Philadelphia : Collins, 

 printer, 1876. 8v^o. pamph., 1 p. 1., pp. i-xiii). The full title, as quoted by 

 Gill, is as follows : — 



Prodromvs Methodi Mammalivm. I Rectore Vuiversitatis magnifi- 



centissimo | serenissimo atqve potentissimo | dvce ac domino | Carolo | dvce 

 Wvrtembergise ac Tecciae regnante, | rel. rel. | — | Ad institvendam | ex 

 decreto gratiosse facvltatis medicae | pro legitime conseqvendo | doctoris 

 medicinae gradv | inavgvralem dispvtationem | propositvs | prseside \ Gottl. 

 CoNR. Christ. Storr | medicinse doctore, hvivs, chemias et botanices { pro- 

 fessore pvblico ordinario | vuiversitatis H. T. pro-rectore, | respondente | 

 Friderico Wolfifer, | Bohnlandense. | — '| Tvh'mgce, d. Jul. MDCCLXXX. \ — \ 

 Litteris Reissianis. [4to, 43 pp., 4 tables.] 

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