IV. THREE KINDS OF WOLVES. 



IT is ocnain that there were three kind? of \volvc> 

 in rcnnsyhania, ahhough they may have been 

 color phases of one species, caiiis iiic.visair.is 

 nubs! us. Phis nught stand as a fact were it not that 

 there was a ditVerence in locahiies inhabited by the 

 several \arieties, \\'hile there may have been cases 

 w here black wolves wlielped s;roy or brown p'.'.ps. and 

 invev>cly. yet tlie concensus of opinion of the old hnnt- 

 ers, and it is on their observations ii'.it this book is 

 writtten. is that the wolves of rennsyhania bred re- 

 ma-,k.;My tri'.e to color. Tlie largest variety, the c'C) 

 wolf, was fv^und in Xort'.iem and in So-.-.tiicvn Tenn- 

 sylv.mia, or. to be more exact, in the comities of the 

 Xortheni and Souiher-i tier. The brow^\ wolf, small- 

 est in si.c. was ih.e \ar.e'iy that formerly abov.nded in 

 t.'.e rd;;e Mountains, in the \A"est Branch Willey, clear 

 to Cleaniehl County, and in the ^^"e^tc^^ part of the 

 State, rhe grcx and brown varieties were less warv 

 anJi were more quickly exterminate^' th.an th.e third 

 variety, which was \iiidway in sire between the two, 

 th.e black wolf, o'- ,\:!;;V ."\.\:o!;. This ani-.f..i' s;-.'aiti;eiy 

 ettof.i^b, inb.abited th.e most limited gTO;-.n^! for it was 

 seldom seen ontsioic the cotttines of tb.e Severi ?iloun- 

 tains •!-. Centre and Minlin Comities. And in the 

 Sc\ e;i Mountains the old hunters aver that tliere were 

 no w olves except black ones. The color of these black 

 wolves was suhiecr to variation. So-.r.e were jetty black. 



