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was occasioually fouud iu Curland, Lithuania, aud Podolia 

 during the last century, but that it no longer extends so far 

 westward and southward, so that we may rely, concern- 

 ing its appearance in Kassia, upon the statement of Pallas 

 (Zoog. R.-A. i. p. 74) that the animal was seldom found in 

 European Eussia, except in the northerly forests, though com- 

 mon in Siberia. In East Siberia, Sarytschew (Reise, i. p. 77> 

 discovered it on the middle portions of the Indigirka. AVr an - 

 gel (Reise, ii. pp. 274, 238) indicates the occurrence of the Glut- 

 ton in Werchojansk and the country of the Tschukts. Gebler 

 (Uebersicht d. Katiinischen Geb. p. 81) calls Gulo borealis 

 a solitary inhabitant of the Altai forests, and we once received 

 from him a specimen from the Altai region. According to vo n 

 Middendorff, the Glutton is also found on the Boganida 

 River, whence it makes excursions to the Tundra, to plunder 

 the traps set for the Y u 1 p e s 1 a g o p u s . It was lately observed 

 by Wosnessenski in Kamtschatka, where it was more nu- 

 merous in northern than in southern portions. There, particu- 

 larly in the Anadyr regions, it is said to inhabit the Tundras 



rather than the forests Georgi (7. c.) designates the 



Ural in general, Lehman n (Brandt in Lehmaun's Reise 

 Zoolog. Append, p. 301) and Eversmann, probably more 

 rightly, only the middle and northerly Ural as its habitat. 

 According to Hoffmann's verbal communications, the ani- 

 mal is to be found in the northerly Ural, at least as far as 

 forests exist, as before indicated by Georgi, and seems to be 

 not rare there, for a skin costs but three silver roubles, and the 

 Samojeds are in the habit of trimming their garments with the 

 fur. Ermann (Reise, i. 1, p. 562) states that the Glutton 

 occurs oa the Obi River. Schrenck (Reise, i. pp. 10, 66, 97) 

 reports that it is found in the forests of the District of Mesen, 

 particularly on the Pinega River, aud sometimes on Onega 

 Lake. The government of Wologda annually delivers 300 to 

 500 Glutton skins (von Baer and Helmerseu, Beitriige, vii. 

 p. 251). I do not recall, after more than twenty years' experi- 

 ence in the government of St. Petersburg, a single instance of a 

 Glutton's having been captured there. Wallenius (Fauna 

 Fenn. p. 11, and Forteckning ofver Siillsk. Samlingar, p. 7) cites 

 the Glutton as inhabiting the Finnish provinces of Tawastland 

 and Osterbotten. We may safely fix its present distribution in 

 the Russian possessions from Finland aud Russian Lapland (?) 

 to Kamtschatka, and from the middle Ural and Altai to the 

 northerly Tundra, 



