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of their fur, for we figure here an individual shot in 
Virginia, which is evidently much allied to, if not 
the very same species'as the wolf of Hernandez. 
In size it was at least equal to other large wolves. 
The general colour an ochry grey, passing down- 
wards into buff, and hoary about the throat and 
face. The nose, mouth, and jowl were sooty black, 
with irregular bars of the same colour crossing the 
cheeks ; the vibrissee were heavy, laid back, and 
reached to the eyes. The forehead bight rufous, 
interspersed with black marks which reached to the 
back of the head; the outside of the ears (which 
were rather long), the middle part of the tail, and 
the feet up to the joints, were rufous, with a black 
bar across the carpus; the root and tip of the tail, 
a space on the croup, another on the shoulder, and 
a number of irregular bars across the back of the 
neck, were sooty black, and the flanks between the 
bars bright buff-grey, paler below. This specimen 
was stuffed, and formed part of the museum of 
Philadelphia.* 
* Prince Maximilian of Wied, in the account of his travels 
in North America, now in the press, will describe, under the 
name of Cunis variabilis, a species of wolf liable to very diffe- 
rect colours in the livery ; and Dr Richardson remarks also, 
that in the same litter, both of his Canis lupus occidentalis and 
Canis lupus occidentulis latrans, there is often a great diversity 
of colour; but the last-mentioned observer claims for hoth 
species a different aspect from the European wolf, which tends 
to a conclusion that he does not think the species of both 
continents identical. 
