116 MAMMALS. 



tlicre is in Eastern Siberia a larger variety ; it is confined to tlie high StejJiJes, while the common 

 species, also found in Siberia, is restricted to the woodlands.* This larger variety may perhaps 

 be a distinct species. There is another in Japan, which Temminckf has described under the name 

 of Meles Anakuma. The figure given of it looks distinct, but both Sclirenck and Radde are of 

 oj)inion that it is only another variety. It has been supposed by others to be nearer the North 

 American species. This, however, can hardly be the case, for, if so, the fact could have been 

 at once determined by examination of the teeth, the distinction being sufficiently marked. Of the 

 two American species, one (the Carcajou) occurs in the northern parts reaching from the Atlantic 

 on the east to Wisconsin on the west, extending far to the north, but not further south than 

 Texas, or latitude 35°, where it is rejjlaced by the other species, the Mexican Badger. 



The Ratel, which is in many respects allied to the Badger, extends along the eastern coast of 

 Africa, and tlii'ough Arabia and Persia, from the Cape of Good Hope to the north of India. 



Gui.o. The Glutton, or "Wolverene, is generally believed to be found in all the three con- 

 tinents of Europe, Asia, and America, although there are still some authors who are disinclined 

 to admit the identity of the Old-world and the New-world specimens. It is a boreal, almost an arctic 

 animal, coming in the category of those which compose the circumpolar zone of life, and yet its 

 remains have been found in the caves of Gaylenreuth, Liege, and Voidou,J near Joyeuse (Ardechc), 

 and in the caverns of Germany. § These remains have been supposed to belong to an extinct 

 species (G. spel^us), but both Baron Cuvier and De Blainville were of opinion that they were those 

 of the existing species. Another extinct species has been described by Kaup from Epplesheim, 

 under the name of G. antedilxjvianus, but it may belong to the living species. If they belonged 

 to the present species we cannot escape from the inference that cither it has changed its nature so 

 far as to require now a colder climate tluxn it did formerly, or else that the climate of Europe was 

 much colder when the individuals whose bones are found in the caves in question roamed through 

 France and German}', than it is now. 



* Eadde, GnsTAV, " Reisen im Siideu von Ost-Sibericn," I Schmerlino, "Oss. Foss." ii. 167. Gervair, '-'Zool. 



1862. ScHRENCK, Leop. VON, " Reiscn, &c. im Amur- and Pala;out. Fianc," 1S59, p. 117 ; and Maldos in " Bull, 



lande," 1868. Soc. Geol. Fr.," t. x., p. 360. 



t SiEBOLD and Tummixck, "Fauna Japonica," 1833. § Blainville, "Ostcog." G. Mustek, pi. 14. 



