66 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 
Var. A. Lupus erissus. Common Gray Wolf. 
Grey Wolf. Coox’s Third Voyage, vol. ii. p. 293. Lewis anD CLARKE, vol. i. p. 206, 283. 
Common Gray Wolf. ScnHooicnrart?’s Travels, p. 285. 
Canis lupus—griseus. Sapine, Franklin’s Voy., p. 654. 
Canis lupus. Parry’s First, Second, and Third Voyages. 
Mahaygan. Cree Inpians. Yes. CHEPEWYANS. 
Amarok. EsquiMaux. 
Pennant, in his Arctic Zoology, remarks, that ‘‘the wolves towards Hudson’s 
Bay are of different colours—grey and white, and some black and white; the 
black hairs being mixed with the white chiefly along the back. In Canada they 
have been found entirely white.’”’ Lewis and Clark also say, “the large wolves 
of the Missouri are lower, shorter in the legs, and thicker than the Atlantic Wolf ; 
their colour, which is not affected by the seasons, is of every variety of shade, from 
a gray or blackish-brown to a cream-coloured white.” The gray, or rather the 
gray and white variety, is the Common Wolf from Lake Superior to the northern 
extremity of the Continent, and in the islands beyond it. It has been seen on the 
Atlantic coast from Nootka northwards. 
The following description, by Mr. Sabine, of a specimen procured at Cumberland 
House, in latitude 54°, and deposited by Captain Franklin in the British Museum, 
will make the reader acquainted with its appearance :— 
DESCRIPTION, 
“ Tt is very dissimilar in colour to the usual state of the (European) wolf, and is of a much 
greater size. The teeth are remarkably strong and large; the ears sharp and erect, thickly 
clothed with dark-brown hair, tipped with gray; above and below on the neck the hair is 
thick and bushy; the whole of the body is covered with a mixture of long gray and black | 
hairs, having some few white ones intermixed on the back ; the sides and belly are dark gray; 
the tail is bushy, gray tipped with brown; the legs are strong, covered with dark-brown hair ; 
claws strong, short, and arched.” 
A specimen procured at Carlton House on the same river, and now in the Museum of the 
Zoological Society*, has the face, cheeks, throat, belly, hips, and tail, white, except a small 
part of the latter, adjoining the ramp, where it is blackish. On the back and sides there 
is an intermixture of long black and white hairs, which, with the grayish wool that partially 
* No. 33. Catalogue of the Museum. 
