156 THE AMERICAN WOLVES. 
their fur is shining and pure black: of the former, 
Mr Griffith, in the English version of the Animal 
Kingdom, furnished a very good figure, taken by 
Mr T. Landseer from a living specimen brought 
from Hudson’s Bay, and remarkable for the im- 
mense quantity of rough long hair guarding the 
throat, its uniform black colour, and bushy tail. 
Yet this animal, like the black wolf of Europe, 
reminded the spectator of the great dogs of the 
arctic circle more than a genuine wolf. The speci- 
men we drew in the Edinburgh Museum had a 
small white space on the breast, and came also 
from North America. This had a canine aspect 
like the first mentioned, and both seemed to have 
the eyes placed nearer the ears and with a longer 
nose than is observed in the common wolf. 
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