ITS DISTRIBUTION IN THE OLD WORLD. 57 



than relinquish possession, though the hunter had approached 

 within twenty yards of his game. When pressed by the pangs 

 of hunger, still bolder exploits are sometimes performed, as in 

 the instance narrated by Capt. J. C. Ross. In the dead of an 

 Arctic winter, his ship's company were surprised by a visit 

 from a Wolverene, which clambered over the snow wall sur- 

 rounding the vessel, and came boldly on deck among the men. 

 Forgetful of its safety in the extremity of its need for food, 

 the animal seized a canister of meat, and suffered himself to 

 be noosed while eating. ,,y^ ^P^^ 



DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES IN THE OLD WORLD. 



This portion of the subject is translated from J. F. Brandt's 

 elaborate article.* 



According to Georgi (7. s. c. [I. e. Geogr. Phys. Beschr. 1786] 

 p. 1547), the Glutton is found in the temperate, and particu- 

 larly in the cold regions of Russia and Siberia ; that is to say, 

 from Lithuania and Ourlaud, where, however, it is rare, to 

 Finland, Kola, Archangel, Wologda, Perm; and in Siberia, 

 from the mountains which bound this country (the Altai', the 

 Saj'an, and Daurian Alps, the Stannovoi, &c.), to the Arctic 

 Tundras. Brincken (Mem. sur la Foret de Bidlowicza, p. 45) 

 speaks of Gluttons in the forest of Bidlowicza. Eichwald, 

 however, two years later (1830), states that formerly they were 

 only found in some few forests of Podolia and Pinsk (Skizze, 

 p. 237). In 1791, Fischer says (Xaturgesch. von Livland, 

 Livonia, 2d edition, p. 141) that the Glutton was already rare 

 in Livonia, though still common in Russia, Poland, Lithuania, 

 and Lapland, as well as in Curland; though in Derschau 

 and von Keyserling's description of the Province of Cur- 

 land, published as early as 1805, the Glutton is not mentioned 

 among the animals of Curland, and it is likewise wanting in 

 Lich ten stein's Catalogue of the Mammals of Curland, 

 published in 1829 (Bull. Nat. Hist. Moscou). Kessler only 

 mentions the Glutton incidentally, stating that there were 

 reports of its casual appearance, and that a specimen was 

 once captured, though giving no particulars. According 

 to Rczaczynski (Auctuar. Hist. Nat. p. 311), two Glut- 

 tons were killed in Podolia at the beginning of the last 

 century. It is, therefore, unquestionable that the Glutton 



*BemerkuDgeti liber die Wirbelthiere des nordlichen europiiischen Russ- 

 lands, besonders des nordlichen Ural's. Ein Beitrag zur niiheren zoolo- 

 gisch-geograpbischen Kenntniss Nordost-Europa's. 



