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GENUS CANIS. — LiNNiEus. 
DENTAL FORMULA. 
Incisive - ; Canine — ; Molar — =40. 
6 1 — 1 6— G 
The three first in the upper jaw, and the four in the lower, trenchant 
but small, and called also false molars. The great carnivorous tooth above 
bi-cuspid, with a small tubercle on the inner side, that below with the 
posterior lobe altogether tubercular, and two tuberculous teeth behind each 
of the great carnivorous teeth. Muzzle, elongate ; tongue, soft ; ears, 
erect, (sometimes pendant in the domestic varieties.) Fore feet, pendacty- 
lous ; hind feet, tetradactylous. Teats, both inguinal and ventah 
CANIS LUPUS, — Lrait. — (Vae. Atee.) 
Black American Wolf. 
PLATE LXVII. Male. One-third n.atural size. 
C. niger, magnitudine, formaque C. lupi. 
characters. 
Size and shape of the Common American Wolf; Canis, lupus occidenta- 
lis ; colour black. 
SYNONYMES. 
Loup Noir de Canada, Buffon, vol. ix., p. 364 - 41 . 
Black Wolf, Long’s Expd., vol. i., p, 96 . 
“ Say, Frankl. Jour., vol. i., p. 172. 
“ Griffith, Anim. King., vol. 2., p. 348. 
“ Godman, Nat. Hist., vol. i., p. 267. 
Canis Lyacon, Harlan’s Fauna, p. 82. 
Var. E. Lupus ater, Black Amer. Wolf, Richardson, 
Fauna Boreali Amer., p. 70. 
