156 IHE AMERICAN WOLVES. 



their fur is shining and pure black : of the former, 

 Mr Griffith, in the English version of the Animal 

 Kingdom, furnished a very good figure, taken by 

 Mr T. Landseer from a living specimen brought 

 from Hudson's Bay, and remarkable for the im- 

 mense quantity of rough long hair guarding the 

 throat, its uniform black colour, and bushy tail. 

 Yet this animal, like the black wolf of Europe, 

 reminded the spectator of the great dogs of the 

 arctic circle more than a genuine wolf. The speci- 

 men we drew in the Edinburgh Museum had a 

 small white space on the breast, and came also 

 from North America. This had a canine aspect 

 like the first mentioned, and both seemed to have 

 the eyes placed nearer the ears and with a longer 

 nose than is observed in the common wolf. 



