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ingular animal, on account of the length of body, and hortnes of legs, appears to belong to the Weael tribe. Mr. Pennant allots it with the Bear—it has a roundih head, with a blunt noe, hort ears, limbs large and trong, tail very buhy, general colour black, with a broad horizontal tripe, of a yellowih colour, along the upper part of the face, the ides, and the tail.

The great voracity of this animal has fixed upon it the opprobrious name it bears. If the active peed which wild animals in general poes fell to the hare of the Glutton, he mut inevitably oon thin the foret of its inhabitants, but the cautious hand of Nature has guarded againt his voracity by a body ill-formed for celerity; thus diqualified for puruit, yet ever preed by an active appetite, it has recoure to cunning and tratagem. Selecting a tree whoe ituation is promiing, or oberving on the bark the marks of the teeth or horns of the deer, or other beat, he readily acends, and, hiding among the preading branches, he will there wait for weeks together, expecting ome unwary animal to pas under, which he intantly drops upon, fixing his teeth and claws into the neck, digs a paage to the great blood veels, which lie in thoe parts—in vain the tortured animal flies for relief among the branches of the foret, the Glutton till holds his tation; and, although it often loes parts of its kin and fleh, which are rubbed off againt the trees, yet it till ticks fat, the force of appetite and nature prevail more than his feelings; and he never eizes, but he brings down his prey, wearied by fatigue, and faint by los of blood: the moment of victory rewards for former trouble, and he then makes up for pat fatigue by immediately falling to, and ceaes not, till overgorging has detroyed every animal function; thus torpid through atiety, he lies till nature qualifies him to renew the feat, which he does not quit till entirely eaten up bones and all. As uch a bountiful repat cannot always upply his voracity, he ues much cunning to procure his prey; he will frequently anticipate the portman by clearing his traps of the game; he teals upon the retreat of other animals, particularly the rein deer, of whoe fleh he is greedily fond: he alo lies in wait, and falls upon the game other animals have run down, his contant neceities producing a pretty fertile invention. One of thee animals confined at Dresden conumed thirteen pounds of fleh every day, and yet not atisfied. The Glutton inhabits the northern parts of Europe, Siberia, and America; its kin is highly eteemed for a beautiful glos and damaked appearance; in length it is about three feet and a half, and eighteen or twenty inches high.