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The specimen in the collection of the Exploring Expedition is not 

 so large as Dr. Townsencl's specimens in the Museum of the Phila- 

 delphia Academy, but is clearly the same animal. Like the common 

 wolf of North America, this species varies much in color and presents 

 nearly similar dilferences in specimens. 



Mr. Peale's description and remarks which we regard as relating to 

 this species, are as follows : 



"The size is greater than that of the Pyrenean Wolf, which it re- 

 sembles. General color, brown ; fur beneath the hair, cinereous. Nose, 

 back of the ears, front of the legs, and sides of the tail, ferruginous ; 

 throat and abdomen, cinereous ; cheeks, light yellowish-gray ; forehead, 

 darker gray ; the hairs black, with a white bar nearest the roots ; nape, 

 pale ferruginous gray ; hairs of the back, white one-third of their length 

 from their roots, the rest black, with an obscure fulvous bar ; tail, 

 very dark above, and black at the tip, ferruginous beneath, paler on 

 the sides; terminal hairs white at the roots, the rest glossy black. 

 Fore legs tawny, in front ferruginous, with a narrow black line ; under 

 part of feet and claws, blue-black; the nails short and but slightly 

 bent. Hind legs and feet less robust; the flanks ferruginous ; whiskers 

 sparse, black. Ears lined with cinereous hair. Teeth, large and 

 strong; the two middle incisors of the upper jaw, trilobate; two outer 

 incisors of the lower jaw, bilobate." 



" Total length (dried skin), five feet two inches; tail, one foot eight 

 inches ; from the end of the nose to the eye, four and three-quarter 

 inches ; nose to ear, nine and a half inches ; ear, four and a half inches ; 

 terminal hairs of the tail, five inches ; claws of the fore feet, nine- 

 tenths of an inch; spurious (thumb) nail, more curved, eight-tenths 

 of an inch ; claws of the hind feet, one inch ; between the front 

 angles of the ears, three and a half inches ; upper canine teeth, one 

 and two-tenths of an inch ; lower canine teeth, one inch." 



"The drawing for Plate III, was -taken from a specimen obtained 

 at Puget Sound, Oregon. It had killed a calf by a single bite which 

 had divided its spine, and was subsequently poisoned with strychnia 

 on its return to devour the victim. Figure 2, on the same plate, was 

 drawn from a living animal taken when young in North Carolina ; 

 both specimens were about the same size, and, notwithstanding the 

 wide difference in locality (the entire continent of North America, 

 from northwest to southeast), few persons, we believe, could distin- 

 guish one from the other." 



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