KEY TO LAND MAMMALS OF NORTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA I3I 



Upper parts seal 'brown; under parts grayisli brown; tinder surface of wehs 

 between toes densely hairy. Total length, 1100 (43|) ; tail vertebrae, 420 (16^) ; 

 hind foot, 120 (4f). (huds6nica; N. Lat., Hudsonian) 



The northeastern otter occurs throughout the less densely inhabited 

 portions of eastern North America from the lower edge of the transition 

 zone northward. 



Lutra hudsonica lataxina (F. Cuvier) Southeastern otter 

 1823 Lutra lataxina F. Cuvier, Diet, des sol. nat. 27:242. (South 



Carolina) 

 1898 Lutra hudsonica lataxina Rhoads, Trans. Am. philos. soc, u. s. 

 Oct. 1898. 20 : 427. 

 Upper parts yellowislx hrown; under parts light grayish brown; under surface 

 of ivehs hetiveen toes sparsely hairy. Total length, 1100 (43f ) ; tail vertebrae, 

 420 (16i); bind foot, 125 (4|). (lataxina; N. Lat., Hke the genus L at ax) 

 The southeastern otter occupied the austral zones of the eastern 

 United States north of the peninsula of Florida, where it gives way to 

 the Florida otter, L. hudsonica vaga Bangs. 



Lutra degener Bangs Newfoundland Otter 

 1898 Lutra degener Bangs, Proc. biolog. soc. Washington. 24 Mar. 1898. 



12 : 35. (Bay St George, Newfoundland) 

 1898 Lutra degener Rhoads, Trans. Am. philos. soc. n. s. Oct. 1898 

 20 : 433. 

 Size small, total length about 995 (39^) ; greatest length of skull about 95 

 (31) ; hind foot about 112 (4|) ; color blackish, (d 6 g e n e r ; Lat., degenerate) 



The Newfoundland otter is confined to the island of Newfoundland. 



Genus Gulo Storr 

 1780 Gulo Storr, Prodr. meth. mamm. p. 34. Type Ursus gulo Lin- 

 naeus. 

 Pa7't of sole applied to ground in walking, body stout; claws large, compressed, 

 curved; ears very short; tail short, bushy; teeth 38. (Gulo; Lat., a 

 glutton) 



The genus Gulo contains two species only, both inhabitants of the 

 northern hemisphere, G. gulo of the old world, and the following: 



Gulo luscus (Linnaeus) Woiverhie 



1758 Ursus luscus, Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10. 1:47. (Hudson 



bay) 

 1823 Gulo luscus J. Sabine, Franklin's journal, p. (>50. 



Dark brown or blackish; a palo area on sides. Total long! li, 7(U) (30) ; lail 

 vertebrae, 200 (8) ; liind foot, 170 (6;^. (luscus; Lat., ono-eyod) 



The wolverine inhabits the boreal forests of North America. Within 

 our limits it is now chiefly, if not wholly confined to Canada. 



