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difference between the Canis Lycaon of Europe, and the Canis Lupus ; though it 
has happened that the peculiar characters of the American Wolves have sometimes 
been ascribed to the Canis Lycaon, from the descriptions having been taken from 
American specimens. One can easily understand how Black Wolves accidentally 
congregating may produce an offspring of the same hue with themselves, until, by 
a concurrence of circumstances, the black variety is the predominating one in a 
particular district ; but the breed must be frequently contaminated by wolves of 
other colours. Pallas, in a letter to Pennant, says, “I have seen at Moscow 
about twenty spurious animals from dogs and Black Wolves. They are for the 
most part like wolves, except that some carry their tails higher, and have a kind 
of coarse barking. They multiply among themselves, and some of the whelps are 
grayish, rusty, or even of the whitish hue of the Arctic wolves *.” 
Black Wolves are more frequent in the southern parts of Europe than in the 
northern ; and to the south of the Pyrenees they are said to be more common 
than the ordinary species or variety. In like manner the American Wolf is more 
common on the Missouri than farther north ; and it is reported to be plentiful in 
Florida, where, ae to Bartram, the females are distinguished or a white 
spot on the breast t 
* Arctic Zoology, vol. i. p. 42. + Grirritu, Anim. Kingd., vol. ii. p. 348. 
+ WarbDEn, United States, vol.i, p.207. DesmarEest, Mammalogie, p. 198. 
