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made from dry stuffed specimens. Gervais is more true to nature in giving a 

 fuller tail and a rather thicker, though short, muzzle ; but the last is not so large 

 as that in our engraving (fig. 80), which may be an exaggerated feature, and due 

 to the imperfect art, or obstinate whim, of the aboriginal draughtsman. 



The exact proportions, however, of the North-European Glutton are best shown 

 in the annexed Woodcut (fig. 81), being a portrait of the Glutton now living in 



Fig. 81. 



The Glutton (Gulo luscus) in the Zoological Society's Gardens, London. 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



Drawn by N. L. Austen, Esq., 

 About one sixth of the natural size. 



the Zoological Society's Gardens, London, carefully studied and drawn by Mr. N. 

 Laurence Austen, P.L.S., E.Z.S., who is well acquainted with the Glutton in its 

 Norwegian home. 



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The Asiatico-European Glutton (Mustela gulo, Linn., Gulo arcticus, Desrn.) has 

 been specially treated of by Pallas in his ' Zoographia Rossico-Asiatica,' 1831, vol. i. 

 pp. 73-75, and by many classificatory naturalists. See C. Knight's ' Penny Cyclo- 

 paedia,' 1838, article GULO. 



The North- American Glutton, or Wolverene, Gulo luscus ( Ursus, Linn.), first 

 figured by Edwards in his ' Natural History of Birds,' in 1747, p. 103, pi. 103, is 

 described in Dr. Richardson's 'Pauna Boreali- Americana,' 1829, p. 41, and in 

 Baird's 'Mammals' &c. 1857, p. 181, and has been treated of by very many 

 travellers and writers. See 'Penny Cyclop.' loc. cit. The two forms are now 

 regarded as belonging to one species, Gulo luscus (Linn.). Dr. Robert Brown, 



