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THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. 
wolfs walking rounds and leaping up, in endeavouring to 
reach the ofFal. He had not run above eight rods from the 
poisoning place before he died. I was afterwards more suc- 
cessful : hearing that Captain Sleeper had poisoned one, I 
called to see it, and made a careful examination of it ; that 
is, of the stuffed skin. It was a black wolf : it had not 
been opened at the belly, but the carcass had been drawn 
out at the mouth, which of course had to be enlarged, so that 
I could form little idea of the shape of the head, or size of 
the mouth. The length of the animal was four feet from 
the nose to the insertion of the tail ; the tail one foot eight 
inches ; from the nose to the eye, four and a half inches ; 
from the nose to the ear, ten inches ; distance between the 
ears, three and a half inches ; (the ears had been cut off for 
the bounty, so that I could not ascertain their length ;) the 
height at fore shoulder, two feet three inches : length of fore 
legs, one f lot four inches ; girth of body, about two feet seven 
inches. The general colour of the body was brownish black, 
somewhat mottled with darker ; the belly was much lighter, 
but a broad stripe of black, undefined at the edges, ran from 
the breast down the middle of the belly : the back was 
blackish, very slightly mottled with white, caused by the 
intermixture of different hairs ; the body was covered with a 
soft thick down, light grey at the root and brownish grey at 
the end ; besides this fur there was likewise a longer hair, 
which gave the colour of the animal ; this hair on the back 
was white at the root, then black, then pure ^vhite, then 
black at the tip ; this gave a speckled appearance to the 
back. The tail was large and bushy ; the hair long, loose, 
and nearly black : the throat and breast were nearly black ; 
the feet and legs black ; the hair on the front of the legs 
close, shining, and bristly : the head was black, the face 
covered with short close hair ; the nose pointed, small, and 
black ; the ears were said to be short, pointed, and upright. 
It was a female, and was with young at the time. 
