Feb., 1912. Mammals of Illinois and Wisconsin — Cory. 353 



Gulo luscus (Linn.). 

 Wolverine. Carcajou. Glutton. 



[C/r^M^] luscus LiNN^us, Syst. Nat., X ed., I, 1758, p. 47. 



Gulo luscus Laph.\m, Trans. Wis. State Agr. Soc, II, 1852 (1853), p. 338. Kenni- 

 COTT, Agr. Rept. for 1858, U. S. Patent Office Rept., 1859, p. 245 (Wisconsin). 

 Miles, Rept. Geol. Surv. Mich., i860 (1861), p. 220 (Michigan). Osborn, 

 Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci., I, 1887-89 (1890), p. 42 (Iowa). Hoy, Trans. Wis. Acad. 

 Sci., Arts & Letters, V, 1882, p. 256 (Wisconsin). Strong, Geol. Wis., Surv. 

 1873-79, I. 1883, p. 43 (Wisconsin). Adams, Rept. State Board Geol. Surv. 

 Mich., 1905 (1906), p. 131 (Michigan). Hollister, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, 

 VI, 1908, p. 141 (Wisconsin). Hahn, Ann. Rept. Dept. Geol. & Nat. Resources 

 Ind., 1908 (1909), p. 579 (Indiana). 



Gulo Luscus Thomas, Trans. 111. State Agr. Soc, IV, 1859-60 (i86i),p. 655 (Illi- 

 nois). 



Gulo horealis Herrick, Geol. & Nat. Hist. vSurv. Minn., Bull. No. 7, 1892, p. 99 

 (Minnesota). 



Type locality — Hudson Bay 



Distribution — Practically the whole of northern North America, 



south in the eastern portion of its range to about latitude 45° and 



formerly to the mountains in Pennsylvania. 

 Description — Largest of the family; general color dark brown, grayish 



on cheeks and crown; a broad pale stripe extends from the shoulder 



along the sides of the body to the tail; rump paler than the back, 



sometimes brownish white ; throat and breast with irregular markings 



of yellowish white ; claws pale ; sexes similar. 

 Measurements — Total length, about 36 to 38 in. (940 mm.); tail 



vertebras, about 6.50 to 7.50 in. (170 mm.); hind foot, about 7 in. 



(178 mm.). 



There is no reason to question the occurrence of the Wolverine in 

 Wisconsin in early days, especially as it is claimed that straggling 

 individuals have been taken in Indiana, one of them as far south as 

 Knox County (Hahn, I. c, p. 580). Dr. P. R. Hoy says, "Wolverines, 

 Gulo luscus, are occasionally taken in the timber; one was taken in La 

 Crosse County, in 1870" {I. c, p. 256). Strong (1883) writes, "Occurs 

 rarely in northern Wisconsin" (^. c, p. 437). Adams in his notes on the 

 mammals of Ontonagon County, Michigan Peninsula, says: "At 

 Rockland five were bought by his brother, J. M. Haring, between 1865 

 and 1875. This is the only Michigan (?) locality known to the writer. 

 Of course, the animals may not have been killed near Rockland, but 

 may have come from a distance" (/. c, p. 131). Old trappers living in 

 the vicinity of Champion, Michigan, claim that Wolverines were occa- 

 sionally killed in that locality, 30 or 35 years ago. 



