THE WOLF. 
Canis Lupus. Linn, 
Tuis sullen and forbidding-looking animal, the most 
ravenous and ferocious that infests the more temperate 
regions of the earth, of many parts of which he is the 
terror and the scourge, is distinguished from the humble, 
generous, and faithful friend of man, the domestic dog, 
by no very remarkable or striking character; and yet 
there is something in his physiognomy, gait, and habit, 
which is at once so peculiar and so repulsive, that it 
would be almost impossible to confound a Wolf, how- 
ever tame, with the most savage and the most wolflike 
of dogs. For the separation of the two species, Linneus, 
as we have seen in the preceding article, had recourse to 
