MAMMALS OF MINNESOTA. . 99 
’ account he is called by the French, Enfant du Diable, the Child 
of the devil, or Bete Puante, the Stinking Beast. This water 
is supposed by naturalists to be its urine, but I have dissected 
many of them that I have shot, and have found within their 
bellies, near the urinal vessels, a small receptacle of water 
totally distinct from the bladder. After having taken out with 
great care the bag wherein this water is lodged, I have fre- 
quently fed on them, and have found them very sweet and 
good.” 
Genus GULO, SrorR. (Wolverenes.)* 
(Fig. 6 [3].) 
This genus contains but a single species of very wide range 
in both hemispheres. The largest North American represent- 
ative of the weasel family (Mustelide). Form clumsy, some- 
what bear-like, pelage shaggy, gait partly plantigrade. The 
tail is bushy and rather short. The claws are curved and 
large. The skull is particularly massive, and its spinous 
development is great. The dentition is as in the martens 
(Mustela) %:t:$:4—38. The anterior molar below is the sectorial 
but lacks the internal cusp. Mastoids and bullz prominent. 
There are seven cervical vertibre, fifteen dorsal, five lumbar, 
three sacral, and about fifteen caudals. 
There are well developed anal glands affording an offensive 
odor. Circumpolar. Name from Latin gu/o, a glutton, in 
allusion to the voracity of the animal. 
Gulo borealis NILsson. 
THE WOLVERENE. 
Mustela gulo LINNZUS, GUNN, HouTTron, etc. 
Ursus gulo SCHREBBR, Seugethiere, 1778; ZIMMERMANN, Geog. Gesch., 
: 1780; GMELIN, SHAW, CUVIER, etc. 
Meles gulo PALLAS, Spic. Zool., 1780. 
Tazus gulo TIEDEMANN, Zool., 1808. 
Gulo borealis NILsson, Illum. Wig. till Skan. Fn.; Rerz., CUVIER, WAG- 
NER, KeEysor and BLAstus, SCHINZ, BLASIUS, BRANDT, 
GRAY, VOGT, etc. 
Gulo sibiricus PALLAS. 
Gulo arcticus DESMAREST, LESSON, FISCHER, GIEBEL, FITZINGER, etc. 
Gulo vulgaris GRIFFITH, SMITH, etc. 
Ursus luscus LINNZ=Us, Systema Nature; ERXLEBEN, SCHREBER, ZIM- 
MERMANN, GMELIN, SHAW, TURTON. 

* Our account is chiefly a compilation from the exhaustive article of Dr. Coues in 
the Monograph of North American Mustelide. 
