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of their fur, for we figure here an individual shot in 

 Virginia, which is evidently much allied to, if not 

 the very same species as the wolf of Hernandez. 

 In size it was at least equal to other large wolves. 

 The general colour an ochry grey, passing down- 

 wards into buff, and hoary about the throat and 

 face. The nose, mouth, and jowl were sooty black, 

 with irregular bars of the same colour crossing the 

 cheeks; the vibrissas were heavy, laid back, and 

 reached to the eyes. The forehead bright rufous, 

 interspersed with black marks which reached to the 

 back of the head; the outside of the ears (which 

 were rather long), the middle part of the tail, and 

 the feet up to the joints, were rufous, with a black 

 bar across the carpus ; the root and tip of the tail, 

 a space on the croup, another on the shoulder, and 

 a number of irregular bars across the back of the 

 neck, were sooty black, and the flanks between the 

 bars bright buff-grey, paler below. This specimen 

 was stuffed, and formed part of the museum of 

 Philadelphia.* 



* Prince Maximilian of Wicd, in the account of his travels 

 in North America, now in the press, will describe, under the 

 name of Canis variabilis, a species of wolf liable to very diflfe- 

 rer.t colours in the livery ; and Dr Richardson remarks also, 

 that in the same litter, both of his Canis lupics occidentalis and 

 Canis lupm occidentalis latrans, there is often a great diversity 

 of colour; but the last-mentioned observer claims for both 

 species a different aspect from the European wolf, which tends 

 to a conclusion that he does not think the species of b**'^^ 

 continents identical. 



