WOLVERENE. 
463 
becomes gradually of a whitish colour; the eyes 
are of a dark colour; the throat and lower side 
of the neck Avhite^, the first spotted with black, 
having some transverse bars of black on the un- 
der side of the neck: the cars are small and 
rounds appearing but little longer than the hair 
that grows on the head : they are covered with 
short brown hair : the hind part of the head and 
neck, the whole body both above and beneath^ 
the legs and taib are all of a brown or chesnut- 
colour^ clouded lighter and darker^ viz. the up- 
per side of the neck and beginning of the back is 
dusky, or very dark Ijrown, which gradually 
changes to a lighter or more pleasant brown in 
- the middle of the back : this colour again grows 
by degrees darker, till it becomes almost black 
in the hind part of the back: the tail towards 
the tip becomes of a dusky-colour : it hath a broad 
bar of very light ash-coloured brown passing- 
round the body, beginning at each shoulder, pro- 
ceeding on the sides backwards, and meeting on 
the rump, just above the tail, where it is broad- 
est. The fur on the M'hoie body is pretty long, 
and seems not to lie so flat to the skin as in 
some animals. All the feet, as far as the heel or 
first joint, are covered with short black hair, 
which gradually becomes brown above the knees: 
the claws are of a light horn-colour: it hath on 
each foot forwards four toes; the hind feet have 
five toes each." 
It should be added, that the above specimen 
described by Edwards, had lost one eye ; and it is 
