46ii WOLVERENE. 
is also extremely fetid. It breeds once a year, 
and brings from two to four young at a litter. 
The fur is much used for muifs, linings, &c. 
Those skins are said to be preferred which have 
least of the ferruo-inous tino-e, and for this reason 
the Siberian variety, which is blacker than the 
rest, is most esteemed. 
Far. ? 
WOLVERENE. 
TJrsus Luscus. U. corpore ferrugineOj rostro fusco, fronte pht- 
gaque laterali corporis albidis. 
Ferruginous B. with dusky snout^ the forehead and lateral band 
of the body whitish. 
U. corporeferrvgineo, rostro fusco, fronte plagaque laterali cor- 
poris albidis. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 71. 
The Quick-Hatch or Wolverene. Edw. pi. 103. < 
Wolverene. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. 8. 
This appears to be no other than a variety of 
the former animal, differing in so few particulars 
as scarce to admit of any other elucidation than 
what may be caught by the eye on contemplat- 
ing its figure, which is here given from Edwards, 
who drew it from a living specimen imported 
from Hudson's Bay, and presented to Sir Hans 
Sloane, in whose possession it continued for some 
years, being perfectly tame and harmless. It 
was about twice the size of a common Fox. Its 
description, as given by Edwards, is as follows: 
All the snout, upper and under jaw, as far as 
the eyes, is of a black-colour ; the forehead above 
