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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, STORR. (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 (Mustelidoe). 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) |:}:f:i=38. The anterior molar below is the sectorial 

 but lacks the internal cusp. Mastoids and bullse prominent. 



There are seven cervical vertibraB, fifteen dorsal, five lumbar, 

 three sacral, and about fifteen caudals. 



There are well developed anal glands affording an offensive 

 odor. Circumpolar. Name from Latin gulo, a glutton, in 

 allusion to the voracity of the animal. 



Gulo borealis NILSSON. 



THE WOLVERENE. 



Mustela gulo LINNAEUS, GUNN, HOUTTON, etc. 



Ursus gulo SCHREBBR, Sseugethiere, 1778; ZIMMERMANN, Geog. Gesch., 

 1780; GMELIN, SHAW, CUVIER, etc. 



Meles gulo PALLAS, Spic. Zool., 1780. 



Taxus gulo TIEDEMANN, Zool., 1808. 



Gulo borealis NILSSON, Ilium. B^ig. till Skan. Fn.; RETZ., CUVIER, WAG- 

 NER, KEYSOR and BLASIUS, SCHINZ, BLASIUS, BRANDT, 

 GRAY, VOGT, etc. 



Gulo sibiricus PALLAS. 



Gulo arcticus DESMAREST, LESSON, FISCHER, GIEBEL, FITZINGBR, etc. 



Gulo vulgans GRIFFITH, SMITH, etc. 



Ursus luscus LINN^US, Systema Naturae ; ERXLEBEN, SCHREBER, ZiM- 

 MERMANN, GMELTN, SHAW, TlJRTON. 



* Our account is chiefly a compilation from the exhaustive article of Dr. Ooues in 

 the Monograph of North American Mustelidae. 



