WOLVERENE. 
iHE Wolverene, 'or Ursus Liiscus of. Lin- 
naeus, is by most naturalists considered as a 
variety of the Glutton. The Linnaean name, 
however, certarniy implies -the oipirjion of that 
great naturalist to have been,; that k has affinity 
to the bear. 
•j; The ag€ur.4te 'Edwardsj^/whose figure we 
fhive adoj^ted, andi on -whom we. can always 
rely, calisi ^heranimal which he has depi6led, 
-tile Quickhatch, or Wolverene. BufFon re- 
jin^rksj that this animal, which was found 
near Hudson's Bay, is probably the same with 
the Canadian Carcajou, and tlie European 
'Glutton/ So confused, however, are the ac- 
counts given by naturalists of the Glutton — 
some resembling it to a badger, some to a fox, 
some to a hyaena, and others classing, it with 
the weasel kind— that several naturalists, iii 
.which number was Ray, have adluaily doubted 
of it's existence. Too much incongmity is 
certainly 
