Wolverine 



Newfoundland Marten. M. atrata Bangs. Darker brown, almost 



black; throat patch orange. 

 Range. Newfoundland. 

 Labrador Marten. M. brumalis 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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