BLACK AMERICAN WOLF. 
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of the wolves is black. We have seen two or three skins procured in 
N. Carolina. There is a specimen in the Museum of the Philosophical 
Society of Charleston, obtained at Goose Creek, a few years ago, that is 
several shades darker than the specimen from which our drawing was 
made ; and in a gang of seventeen wolves, which existed in Colleton Dis- 
trict, S. C., a few years ago, (sixteen of which were killed by the hunters 
in eighteen months), we were informed that about one fifth were black 
and the others of every shade of colour — from black to dusky grey and yel- 
lowish white. We have heard of this variety in the southern part of 
Missouri, Louisiana, and the northern parts of Texas. 
