NOMENCLATURE OF GULO LUSCUS. 



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I append measurements of a very lar^e and another rather 

 small American skull, with those of a specimen from Lapland. 



Measurements of sliuUs, European and American. 



Total length from apex of intermaxillary to occipital protuberance. 



Greatest width (zygomatic) 



Distance between orbits 



Nasal bones, length 



Upper incisors from front to hinder margin of palate 



Upper molars and premolars, length taken together 



Lower molars and premolars, length taken together - 



Lower jaw, length to back of condyle 



Lower jaw, height of corouoid above condyle 



Greatest width of palate 



Least width of skull 



lutermastoid width 



Interparoccipital width 



Foramen magnum, width 



"Width across supraorbital protuberance 



5.50 

 3.35 

 L40 



2.80 

 L65 

 1.95 

 3.65 

 1.70 

 L80 

 1.30 

 3.00 

 L95 

 0.70 

 1. 75 



0. to 

 3.55 

 1.45 

 LOO 

 2.85 

 1.65 

 1.95 

 3.70 

 1.65 

 1.80 

 L35 

 3.20 

 2.05 

 0.75 

 L75 



6.00 

 3.75 

 1.50 

 LOO 

 3.10 

 1.75 

 2.10 

 4.00 

 1.85 

 L95 

 1. 55 

 3.50 

 2.35 

 0.80 

 1.80 



NOMENCLATURE OF THE SPECIES— RELATION OF THE EURO- 

 PEAN AND AMERICAN ANIMAL. 



This animal has received a great variety of names, both tech- 

 nicaFand vernacular. IS^early all barbarous tribes of Northern j 

 regions in both hemispheres, as well as civilized nations, have! ^)y' 

 each bestowed some appellation ; and in some cases at least 

 the latter have adopted an aboriginal name, with more or less 1 



\ modification, while in all cases the book-names of the species ! 

 appear to be derived from the vernacular. Thus, '^ quicfihatch " - — '~ 

 of the English residents of British America is obviously an 

 Anglicism of the Oree or Knisteneaux word, and I agree with 

 Sir^John Eichardson that carcaJou.of the French Canadians is 

 probably derived from the same source. I hav e no idea what 



^ the meaning of the more frequent term tvolverene may be ; 

 none of its various spellings furnish a clue, beyond the obvious 

 wolf J which is however of wholly uncertain applicability here. 

 Gul^^lntto7i, gJoKtoUj are self-explaining, in allusion to the 



voracity of the animal ; this is also the meaning of the Swed-^ 



ish, Russian, and German names above quoted. Gido was 

 adopted by Linm^us as the specific name of the European ani- 

 mal, which he placed in the genus 21ustela. This author sepa- 

 rated the American as Ursus Juscus — an absurd name indeed. 



