Wolverine 
Newfoundland Marten. M. atrata Bangs. Darker brown, almost 
black; throat patch orange. 
Range. Newfoundland. 
Labrador Marten. M. brunalis Bangs. Larger and _ heavier, 
colour darker. 
Range. Northern Labrador. 
Wolverine 
Gulo luscus Linne 
Also called Glutton and Carcajou. 
Length. 30 inches. 
Description. Heavy and_ bear-like, walking on the sole of the 
foot. Hair long and shaggy; general colour  blackish- 
brown, lighter on top and sides of the head; feet black, a 
pale yellowish-white band from the middle of the body on 
each side, widening out on the flanks and joining over the 
basal portion of the tail. 
Range. Boreal North America, Northern New York (formerly) 
northward. 
The wolverine is a most unlovable brute, sullen and greedy; 
his home is in the north woods from the St. Lawrence and the 
Great Lakes north to the very limit of the trees and beyond. 
He is also occasionally found in the northern United States. 
Like the skunk, he is a member of the active and sinuous 
weasel and marten family; and just as the skunk has developed 
a method of defense so effective as to allow its owner to dis- 
pense with the agility of his race and become soft and fat 
through laziness and lack of exercise, the wolverine has devel- 
oped his native shrewdness and heavy strength at the expense 
of his agility. 
No longer capable of running down a hare or climbing for 
birds and squirrels, he tramps it doggedly along through the 
forest, covering immense distances, and never missing an oppor- 
tunity of getting a meal without risking his own safety. He now 
systematically robs the white and half-breed trappers of their 
game, the meat with which they bait their traps, and their stores 
of provisions, just as in past ages he undoubtedly robbed the 
native red man of his frozen fish and venison; and he steals 
from his fur-coated four-footed fellow-hunters as well. 
Where winters are long and severe, lynxes, martens, weasels 
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