. Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. l>aflll^.*K.«(Sitej».4. ,^ju»*kwi'. No. v.] ZOOLOGY. 653 tail is bushy, grey tipped witli brown ; the legs are strong, covered with dark-brown hair; nails of both fore and back feet strong, short, and arched. Canii Lupus—Albus. White Wolf. However great the dimensions of the preceding animal may appear, they are surpassed by that of a Wolf entirely white, which was killed at Fort Enterprise during the second winter that the Expedit
. Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. l>aflll^.*K.«(Sitej».4. ,^ju»*kwi'. No. v.] ZOOLOGY. 653 tail is bushy, grey tipped witli brown ; the legs are strong, covered with dark-brown hair; nails of both fore and back feet strong, short, and arched. Canii Lupus—Albus. White Wolf. However great the dimensions of the preceding animal may appear, they are surpassed by that of a Wolf entirely white, which was killed at Fort Enterprise during the second winter that the Expedition remained in the interior. A plate of it has been engraved to accompany the narrative. Us length was four feet four inches, its height two feet ten inches, and the length of the tail was nineteen inches. The specimen was preserved, but proving too bulky was left behind. It was previously known that white Wolves existed in the vicinity of the Arctic Seas, and it is probable that the loss of colour is effected by the severity of the winter season ; though this change does not appear to occur in all cases, because the Wolves, seen at Melville Island during the winter of 1819-20, though lighter than usual, were not white, nor were they of such large size as that killed at Fort Enterprise. Cams Vulpes. Fox. Poxes are met with over the whole wooded part of the country. The different kinds, which are well known to and distinguished by the huntsmen, are all objects of commerce, above 8000 skins having been imported by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1822. The different Foxes (with the exception of the Arctic) which have been known to exist in the northern parts of North America, have until lately been referred by naturalists to the species at the head of this article, and were considered as varie- ties of it: the same opinion seems to have existed amongst the inhabitants of that country, for both the Indians as well as European Americans have traditions that they originated from E
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