Furbearing animals Author:Elliott Coues Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Subfamily MUSTELIN.E: The Wolverene. The genus Gulo—Generic characters—Gulo luscus, the Wolverene—Synonymy—Habitat—Specific characters—Descript... more »ion of external characters—Measurements—Anal glands—Description of the skull and teeth— Measurements of skulls, European and American—Nomenclature of the species—Relation of the European and American animal—General history geographical distribution, and habits of the species—Its distribution in the Old World. HAVING already presented the characters of the subfamily Mustelines with detail sufficing for present purposes, I may at once proceed to consider the genera composing the group. These are: Gulo; GaUctls; Mustela; Putorius. The second of these is not represented in North America. Putorius is susceptible of division into several subgenera. These genera will be treated in successive chapters, the present being devoted to the genus Gnlo. The Genus GULO. (STORR, 1780.) Mustela, Linn. Syet. Nat. i. 10th ed. 1758, anil or many authors. Trails, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 10th ed. 175s, and of some authors. Meles, Pall. Spic. Zool. liv. 1780; also of Boddaert, 1784. I. uln. Starr,' Prod. Meth. Mamm. 1760, and of late authors generally. (From Klein.) Tains, Ticdem. Zool. i. 1808. This extremely rare work has lately been made the subject of a critical essay by Prof. T. Gill, who examined a copy in the library of the Surgeon- General, U. S. Army, at Washington ("On the 'Prodromus Method! Mam- malium' of Storr". By Theodore Gill. Extracted from the Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington, October, 1874. Philadelphia : Collins, printer, 1876. 8vo. pamph., 1 p. 1., pp. i-xiii). The full title, as quoted by Gill, is as follows :— Prodromvs Methodi Mammalivm. | Rectore Vnirersitatis magnifi- ce...« less