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WHITE AMERICAN WOLE 
years ago ; on the Atlantic coast they do not appear ; although we 
have seen some specimens of a light grey colour they could not when 
compared with those of Missouri, he called white wolves. 
GENERAL REMARKS 
Cold seems necessary to produce the Wolves of white variety. Alpine 
regions from their altitudes effect the same change. Regnard informs 
us that in Lapland, Wolves are almost all of a whitish grey colour — there 
are some of them white. In Siberia, wolves assume the same colour. 
The Alps, on the other hand, by their elevation, may be compared to 
the regions around the Rocky Mountains of America. In both countries 
wolves become white. We devoted some hours to comparing the large 
American, European, and Asiatic Wolves, assisted by eminent British 
Naturalists, in the British Museum and the Museum of the Zoological 
Society. We found specimens from the Northern and Alpine regions of 
both continents bore a strong resemblance to each other in form and 
size, their shades of colour differed only in different specimens from 
either country, and we finally came to the conclusion that the naturalist 
who should be able to find distinctive characters to separate the wolves 
into different species, should have credit for more penetration than we 
possess. 
