TA NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 
muzzle and longer ears than the one found on the Saskatchewan, but the dif- 
ference is not so great as to enable us to speak of them as distinct varieties. 
DESCRIPTION. 
The fur of the Prairie Wolf is of the same quality with that of the Gray Wolf, and consists of 
long hairs, with a thick wool at their base. The wool has a smoky or dull lead colour; the long 
hairs on the back are white either for their whole length, or they are merely tipped with 
black. The prevailing colour along the spine is dark blackish-gray, sprinkled with white 
hairs. Its cheeks, upper lip, chin, throat, belly, and insides of the thighs are white. There 
is a light brown tint upon the upper surface of the nose, on the forehead, and between the 
ears, on the shoulders, on the sides, where it is mixed with gray, and on the outsides of the 
thighs and legs. The tail is gray and brown, with a black tip. Some individuals have a 
broad black mark on the shins of the fore-legs, like the European wolf. The ears are short, 
erect, and roundish, white anteriorly and brown behind. The tail is bushy, and is clothed like 
the body with wool and long hair. Some specimens want the brown tints, and have more of 
the gray colour. 
DIMENSIONS 
Of No. 34, Zoological Museum, killed on the Saskatchewan. 
Feet. Inches, Feet. Inches. 
Length of head and body 6 : _ 3 0 Distance between the end of the nose and 
¥ tail (vertebra) ; oma 0 the anterior angle of the eye 0 33 
55 tail, with the fur... a 5 23 Ss between the ears as “ - 0 3} 
35 the ear, measured behind 0 23 | 55 between the eyes F - 720 2} 
DIMENSIONS 
Of a scull of the Saskatchewan sort. 
Inches. Lines. 
From the incisors to the junction of the 
Inches, Lines, 
The total length of the nose in a recent 
occipital and sagittal crests by callipers 8 0 specimen ought to be about 2 - 4 0 
From ditto to ditto, following the curvature Greatest breadth of the scull, i. e. from the 
of forehead 4 6 : Aw 11 outside of one zygomatic arch to the out- 
Length of nasal bones 2 7 side of the other. 5 0 
The os incisivum projects beyond the Seal From incisors along the base of ae scull to 
bones 5 A ° sl 3 theinferior margin of the occipital foramen 7 0 
There is a second specimen in the Zoological Museum, brought from the 
plains of the Columbia, which has the narrow muzzle and long ears of Say’s 
specimens. 
