Feb., 191 2. Mammals of Illinois and Wisconsin — Cory. 357 



implanted in these animals that, like tame ravens, it does not appear 

 to care much what it steals so that it can exercise its favorite propensity 

 to commit mischief. An instance occurred within my own knowledge 

 in which a hunter and his family having left their lodge unguarded 

 during their absence, on their return found it completely gutted — the 

 walls were there but nothing else. Blankets, guns, kettles, axes, cans, 

 knives and all other paraphernalia of a trapper's tent had vanished, and 

 the tracks left by the beast showed who had been the thief. The family 

 set to work, and by carefully following up his paths, recovered, with some 

 trifling exceptions, the whole of the lost property."* 



It has generally been supposed by modern naturalists that Wolver- 

 ines do not attack and kill large mammals, such as the Moose and Elk, 

 although they eat them when they find them dead, but according to 

 Mr. J. Keele of the Canadian Geological Survey this is not always the 

 case. On March 27, igo8, on Third Lake, Ross River (an affluent of 

 the Pelly), he saw a Moose floundering in deep snow and he and his 

 companion shot it and found that it had already been nearly killed by 

 a Wolverine that had leaped on its back from a tree.f 



Map illustrating the supposed range of the Wolverine, (Gulo luscus) up to the latter part of the last 

 century (about 1870 to 1880). It is very doubtful that the species occurs at the present time in 

 northern Wisconsin or Michigan. 



* Canadian Nat. and Geol., VI, 1861, p. 30. 

 t Forest and Stream, Dec. 19, 1908, p. 971. 



