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pounds may be said to be the average weight of those in 

 good condition. 



There are eighteen teeth in the upper jaw and twenty 

 below, divided as follows: Incisors, twelve; canines, four; 

 pre-molars, sixteen; molars, six. As in the marten, the 

 upper back molars are set transversely in the jaw. 



The Wolverine may be said to be confined to the north- 

 ern parts of Europe, Asia, and America, and is usually 

 found only in wooded districts. In the Rocky Mountain 

 region, its southern limit is probably 38, and near the 

 eastern coast of the United States, about 42. Audubon 

 killed one in Rensselaer County, New York, in 1810. In 

 several natural histories we find accounts of occasional 

 specimens having been taken, previous to 1850, at about 

 latitude 42 and 43, in the States of New York, Massachu- 

 setts, New Hampshire, and Vermont; but I can not recall a 

 single account of its occurrence in the Ohio or Mississippi 

 Valleys, nor in Canada, though it is probable the animal is 

 still to be found in the latter countrj 7 .* We have late and 

 authentic records of its occurrence in the Rocky Mountains 

 as far south as latitude 39, though I have never heard of one 

 in this latitude below an altitude of nine thousand feet. As 

 we proceed toward the Arctic regions, along the Continental 

 Divide, we hear of its presence from time to time; but until 

 we reach the Peace and Mackenzie River regions, in British 



* Iu a letter to the editor, dated March 29, 1890, Mr. William P. Lett says: "1 find in the 

 'Naturalist and Geologist,' published by the late Elkaiiah Billings, the paleontologist of the 

 Geological Survey of Canada, the following: 'The Glutton (Gulo Luscus, Linn.) is the Car- 

 cajou of Le Hoiitan and the French Canadians; Quickhatch (Ursula affinis Americana) of 

 Catesby (Carolina); Quickhatch of the English residents at Hudson's Bay; Quickhatch or 

 Wolverine of Ellis; Wolverine of Pennant: Wolverine, Qui-qui-hatch, or Carcajou of Gra- 

 ham (Manuscripts); Ka-blee-a-ri-oo df the Eskimos of Mellville Peninsula; Ka-e-week of 

 the Eskimos of Boothia Felix; Na-gha-i-eh of the Chippewas: O-mee-that-sees O-kee-coo- 

 haw-gew (whence, Sir John Richardson observes, the term Quickhatch of the European 

 laborers in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company is evidently derived) of the Crees or 

 Algonquins: Rosomak of the Russians: Jarf Filfress of the Fauna Suecica; Timmi of 

 the Kamchatkans; Haeppi of theKoratzki; Gluton of the French; Gulo of Olaus Magnus; 

 Gulo Vielfrassot Genet; Hyena and Ursus Hudsonis of Brisson; Mustela Gulo and Ursus 

 Luscus of Linnaeus; Ursus Gulo of Pallas and Gmelin: Tax us Gulo of Tiedemaun; Gulo 

 Arcticust of Desmarest; Gulo Vulgaris of Griffith's Cuvier; Gulo Luscus of Sabine.' I 

 cau not find any authentic account of this animal having been killed or observed in the 

 Ottawa Valley of late years: but one was killed, about forty years ago, while swimming 

 across the Gatineau River, which stream enters the Ottawa River about one mile below 

 this city. I dare say there are-some up there yet." 



