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 THE WOLVERENE. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Six cutting teeth and two canine in each jaw. 



Five toes before j five behind. 



In walking refts on the hind feet as fur as the heel. 



Pennant. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Ferruginous brown Bear, with a lateral band of a deeper colour, and 

 nightly bufliy tail. 



The Quickhatch, or Wolverene. 



Edwards, fl. 103. 



TH E animal here reprefented has fometimes been confounded with a very 

 different quadruped : viz. the Muftela Gulo of Linnjeus, or Glutton ; to 

 which it is indeed allied in general appearance, tho' really a diftinft fpecies. 

 It is a native of the colder parts of North America, and refides chiefly in 

 woods. It feems to have been firft defcribed and figured by Edwards, under 

 the name of the Quickhatch, or Wolverene. 



Its fize is that of a fmall wolf. Its colour a tawny brown; which on each 

 fide the back is much deeper, and fpreads downwards in a fomewhat arcuated 



O 2 manner 



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