. The quadrupeds of North America [microform]. Mammals; Rodentia; Mammifères; Rongeurs. 212 THE WOLVERENE. GENERAt, RBMARKfl. This has been arranged by dilli i^iit authors under several genera. Linnaeus placed it under both MtJ«TEi,LA and LTnsus. Storr esta- blished for it the genus Gulo, which was formed from the specific name, as it had been called Ursus Gulo, by Stork's grnci' iiaino has been since adopted by Cuvier and other modern naturalists. liRAv named it Grisoxia. Linn/eus is notwithstanding entitled to the specific name, although this is tlit result oi an error int
. The quadrupeds of North America [microform]. Mammals; Rodentia; Mammifères; Rongeurs. 212 THE WOLVERENE. GENERAt, RBMARKfl. This has been arranged by dilli i^iit authors under several genera. Linnaeus placed it under both MtJ«TEi,LA and LTnsus. Storr esta- blished for it the genus Gulo, which was formed from the specific name, as it had been called Ursus Gulo, by Stork's grnci' iiaino has been since adopted by Cuvier and other modern naturalists. liRAv named it Grisoxia. Linn/eus is notwithstanding entitled to the specific name, although this is tlit result oi an error into which he was hd in this man- ner : Edwards had made a figure from a living specimen imported from America. It was a strongly marked variety, with much white on its tbre- head, sides, and neck. Linnaeus regarding it as a new species, described it as such. In seeking for some name by which to designate it, he ob- served that it had lost one eye, and it is supposed applied th« trivial name " luscus," one-eyed, to the animal, merely on account of the abov»' accidental blemish. The vulgar names Glutton, Carcajou, (fee, have given rise to inucli confusion in regard to the habits of the species. The name ' luKon induced many ancient authors to ascribe to it an appetite of extravagant voraciousness. Carcajou appears to be some Indian name adopted by the French, arid this name has evidently been applied to different species of animals. Charlevoix, in his Voyage to America, vol. i., p. 201, speaks of the "car- cajou or quincajou, a kind of cat, with a tail so long that he twists it several times round his body, and with a skin of a brownish ; He then refers to his climbing a tree, where after two foxes have driven the elk under the tree, the cat being on the watch pounces on it in the manner ascribed to the Wolverene. Here he evidently alludes to the cougar, as his lomr tail and coloiu- apply to no other animal in our coun try. Lawson refers the same singula
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