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Show 1885.] DR. ST. G. MIVART ON THE ARCTOIDEA. 381 acerees. Les pieds anterieurs sont semi-digitigrades, les posterieurs plantigrades." Gulo1.-This Bear-like musteline form consists of but one species, which ranges over the extreme north of both continents- Siberia, Russia, Scandinavia, Canada, only to the extreme north of the United States towards the Atlantic but down possibly to Northern California in the Western region. It has very small ears, inconspicuous, and hairy on both sides, very small eyes, a naked muzzle with groove and very hairy palmar and plantar surfaces with small pads amongst the hairs. A short tail, about the length of the head, clothed with long hairs; the feet are large and the habit semiplantigrade. Its ferocity appears to have been exaggerated, and Audubon and Bachman speak of having seen one which was so gentle that the owner of the show, in which it was confined, took it out and opened its mouth " to enable us," they say, " to examine its teeth, and it buried its head in our lap while we admired its long claws and felt its woolly feet." It had been taught to sit on its haunches and hold a pipe in its mouth. It was adverse to the light of the sun, and seemed attached to a Marmot in the same cage. The same authors say that it feeds principally on the carcases of beasts killed by accident, and destroys disabled quadrupeds, eating also Marmots, Mice, and other rodents. They deem the assertion that it attacks large healthy game incredible. But it is after all a formidable beast, and bold dogs would not enter its burrow a second time. Richardson saw one chasing a Hare which was being, at the same time, harassed by a Snowy Owl. The Glutton, however, was much too slow in its movements to catch it. Captain Ross says that in midwinter it climbed the snow-wall round his vessel and came on deck, where, undismayed by the presence of a dozen men, it seized a canister of meat, which it ate so ravenously that it allowed itself to be snared by a noose and strangled. There are 14 or 15 dorsal, 5 lumbar, 3 sacral, and 15 or 16 caudal vertebrae. The metacarpus is at its maximum relative length amongst Arctoids, and indeed amongst Carnivores if we except Cynoid and Hyanida. The inner condyle of the humerus is perforated 2. 1 Gulo, Gesner, Quad. Vivip. (1551) p. 623; Aldrovandus, Quad. Dig. (1645) p. 178. Mustela gulo, Linn. S. N. i. (ed. 10,1758) p. 45, no. 3; Erxl. Sys. Ann. (1777) p. 477, no. 15. Ursus gulo, Schreber, Saug. iii. (1778) p. 525, pi. 144, 144a. Meles gulo, Pallas, Spic. Zool. xiv. (1782) p. 25, pi. 2. Gulo borealis, Wagn. Supp. ii. (1841) p. 246; Gray, P.Z.S. 1865, p. 120; Cat. Carniv. B. Mus. 98. Gulo arcticus, Desm.Mamm. i. (1820) p. 174 ; Less. M a m m . p. 142; Fischer, Gulo^luscus, Richardson, F. B. A. I. 1829, p. 41 ; Fisch. Syn. p. 154; Audubon & Bachman, Quad. N. A. I. p. 202, pi. 26 ; Baird, N. A. Mamm. p 181 • Sabine, ' Supp. Parry's 1st Voyage,' p. 184 ; Coues, Fur-bear. An. p 34 ; P. Gervais, M a m m . ii. p. 108 ; Buffon, H. Nat. xiii. p. 278, & Supp. iii. 240, pi. 48; De Blainville, Osteog. Mustela. 2 Owen, Anat. of Vertebrates, vol. ii. p. 509. |