WOLVERENE. 
Though we conceive that, on the whole, 
the Wolverene more resembles the Carcajou 
of Canada, than the Glutton, we cannot avoid 
thinking them different animals. Yet even 
the Glutton, as described by Pontoppidan, in 
his Natural History of Norway, seems to 
wear the same appearance as the Wolverene. 
This author, after observing that the Glutton 
which he describes is chiefly confined to the 
diocese of Drontheim, remarks that the skin 
is so very valuable, that the animal is not shot 
<^vith fire-arms, to prevent it's skin from being 
damaged ; and that the hair is soft, and of a 
black colour, shaded with bfown and yellow, 
One general description of habits appears 
•to have served all the various naturalists, for 
these animals. 
The Wolverene, the Glutton, and the Car- 
cajou, are indiscriminately charged with the 
possession of voracious and insatiable appe- 
tites : they are all said to be the vultures of 
•quadrupeds ; and to be only prevented from de- 
stroying every animal of the forests, by the 
slowness 
