SY^•ONYMY OF GULO LUSCUS. 35 



Irsus I.llSCUS, L. S. X. i. 1758, 47, no. 2; 1766, 71, uo. 4 (based on BrisBon and EdwardU).— 

 Erxl. Syst. Anim. 1777, 167, no. 5.—Schreb. Sang. iii. 1778, 539.— Zimm. Geogr. Geach. 

 ii. 1780, 276, no. 169.— Gm. S. N. i. 1788, 103,no. i.—Shai'.\ G. Z. i. 1800, 462, pi. 105, 

 lower fig. (after Edv^Avda). —Turt. S. N. i. 1806, 64. 



VrSTS IVSCVS, Fabric. Fn. Grffinl. 1780. 24, No. 14. 



^[ejes lUSCUS, Bodd. Elench. An. i. 1784, 80. 



CiulO lUSCUS, J. Sab. Franklin's Journ. 1823, 650.-1;. Sab. Suppl. Parry's lat Voy. 1824, 

 pTcT^kxix.—Rich. App. Parry's 2d Voy. 1325, '292— Rich. F. B.-A. i. 1829, Al.—Fisch. 

 Syn. 1829, 154.— Godm. Am. X. H. i. 1831, 185, pi.—, lower &g.—Ross, Exp. 1835, 8.— 

 H. Smith, Xat. Lib. xv. 1842, 20S.—De Eay, X. T. Zool. i. 1842, 27, pi. 12, f. 2.— Gray, 

 List Mamm. Br. Mus. 1843, 63.— J.ud. <£ Bach. Quad. X. A. i. 1849, 203, pi. 26.— 

 Thomps. X. H. Vermont, 1353, 30.— Bainl Stansbury'e Eeport, 1852, 311 (Great Salt 

 Lake, "Crtab) ; M. X. A. 1857, 181.— Billings, Canad. Xat. and Geol. i. 1857, 241.— 22o«s, 

 op. cit. vi. 1861, 30, i41.— Maxim. Arch. Xaturg. 1861,—; Verz. X.-Am. Saug. 1862, 35.— 

 Gerr. Cat. Bones Br. Mus. 1862, 96 (includes both).— Coue^', Am. Xat. i. 1867, 352 — 

 Ball, Am. Xat. iv. 1870, 221 (Yukon).— Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. i. 1870, 177 (Massachu- 

 setts).— Jlferr. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr. 1872, 662 ("Wyoming).— AZZe?i, Bull. Essex. Inst. 

 Ti. 1874, 54 (Montgomery, Colot&do). —Trippe, apud Coues, Birds X. W. 1874, 224, 

 in text (Clear Creek County, Colorado). — Cones d Yarroic, Zool. Expl. W. 100 

 Merid. v. 1875, 61 (Wahsatch Mountains and localities in Utah). 



Gulo arcticus, var. A., Desm. Mamm. i. 1820, 174, no. 267.— SaW. Fn. Amer. 1825, 60. 



GulO wolverene, Grif. An. Kingd. v. 1827, in, no. 332. 



Carcajou, La Bontan, Voy. 1703, Si.— Sarrasin,* M6m. Acad, Sci. Paris, 1713, p. 12.— Bo- 

 mare, Diet. d'Hist. Xat. i. 1768, 423.— French Canadians. (Xot of F. Cuvier, Suppl. 

 Buff.) (Also, Carkajou, Karkajou. Compare Cree Indian names.) 



Carcajou or Queequehatch, Dobbs, Hudson Bay, 1744, 40. 



Quickhatch or Wolverene, Edv:. Birds, ii. pi. 103.— Ellis, Hudson's Bay, i. 1750, 40, pi. 4. 

 {Quickehatch and Quiquihatch are also found. Compare Cree Indian names.) 



Wolverene, Penn. Syn. Quad. 1771, 195, no. 40, pi. 20, f. 2: Hist. Quad. ii. 1781, 8, pi. 8,- 



Arct. Zool. i. 1784, 66, uo. 21.— flcarne, Journ. , 312.— Church, Cab. Quad. ii. 1805, 



pi. — . (Also, Wolverenne, Wolveren, Wolverin, Wolverine, Wolvering.)—yolverene, 

 Less. Man. 1827. 142 (in text). 



Grdste amerlcauische Halbluclis, Hall. Xaturg. Thiere, 1757, 518. 



Wolf beer, Houtt. Xatuur. Hist, Dieren, ii. 227. — TFo?/«&ar, Miill. Xaturs. i. 1773, 285. 



Ours de la baye de Hudson, Briss. op. et loc. dt 



Okeecoohawgew, Okeecoohawgees, Cree Indians. (Obvious derivation of Quickhatch, if 

 not also of Carcajou.) 



Hab. — Arctogna. In America, the whole of the British Provinces and 

 Alaska, south in the United States to Ne'w England and Ne'w York, and still 

 further in the Rocky Mountains, to at least 39^. 



Specific characters.— S.uto-pliintigrade, thick-set, shaggy, bushy-tailed, 

 with thick legs and low ears ; blackish, with a light lateral band meeting 

 its fellow over the root of the tail, thus encircling a dark dorsal area : fore- 



Description of external characters A 



The form of this aDiinal indicates great strength, without 

 corresponding activity. The body is heavy and almost clumsy, 

 supported upon thick-set and rather low legs ; the walk is in- 

 completely plantigrade. The back is high-arched, the general 



* Special paper: Histoire d'un animal nomme Carcajou en Amenque, &g. 

 t Taken from a mounted specimen, from Great Salt Lake, Utah, in the 

 National Museum. 



