12 THE COMMON WOLF. 



uii tlic aiitliority uf Mr. Alli'ii, that ... .<.<>lf is ruiiiul rost uf the 

 Mississi|i|)i and south of C'niiudii otih in the idill nrnrly unitettleii 

 ItartM of the countn*. as the northern |K>rtiun of New Kn^lund and New- 

 York, |>ortionH of the Alleghaiiics, Southern Hdnda. and |><>Mil>ly ui the 

 M|Hipiely settled imrta of the interior States stiulh of the Ohio. It is only 

 nhuiidunt in the remote districts of Maine. WeM of the Miftiki»Ki|)|ii its 

 miiiilHTH are very Kiiinll in crui i witli its former ahundoiici-, while 



over vast areiis it lins Ik-cii u , > vtir|intcd. North of the I'nited 



Slates, except in the iiiurr B4-t(led ftarts of ( anntb. it it proliaMy still 

 wore or less common. 



Mr. S. F. liaird justly ohservrs *, with m|icct lo tlie unity or multi- 

 plicity of s|Hries of Wolf — " It is ditiirult to ocrupy a middle i^und 

 iM'twtvii ctinsidering all our wolves as one s|>rrii-s with many vaneties, 

 or milking nil iheiM' vnriities into as many distinct s|HTies. Thus, we 

 have the pure while wolf of the I -.t.. , \!,v^.,,r, _ i|„. ,|,i..lv I'luckish 

 phiiuU-ous wolf of the .MisMmn , ' k wolf < < id and 



the Soulhcni States, and the entirely rrd or rufous wolf of Texas. 

 Tlu-sf vary, too, in 8lia|M- as well oh ailour, the more southern ones 

 Hp|M-nrin^ usually more slender f, and standing higher on the legs, in 

 eoiiHe(|uenct-, |HThnps, of the comparative si and cuiii|mctncss 



of the fur." The wnlf di'M-en«ls so far south in >■ fis the Slate of 



(iuniiajiinlo, l»ul ♦'" -■ '-•ullu-rn "■''■- ••'• ■"•..,.. ...;;ri<>r m m/. to 

 the m)rtliern, anil uW the ^ 



We have examined a block wolf -skin fnnu America, and a |>crfectly 

 while one also from .Vmerica, not an albino, was seen at LiveqKwl a 

 short time ago by Mr. A. D Hartlelt. At the British Museum there 

 IS a 8|)eciiiieii brought from North America by Dr. Hac, which is most 

 ri*marknble on account of its long white hair, being an e&amplc of a 



• IjOf. fit. p. llij. 



t This mnsxk is intvmtinf beeoui.^ ... ' 'id- World form {•aUtf>t$ u 



di»tin{nii*hnl by iu grp«(«r stcndeincM (rom the vol^'os of Dorthem |iart« of the 

 I'.iLrarrtic rrgi" 



i Alston, for. ca. i>. i>'>. 



