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Title: The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports
Year: 1830 (1830s)
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Subjects: Zoology Hunting
Publisher: Philadelphia, John Doughty
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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d-ed at the toe, or have that shape given to it which it na-turally acquires in a fortnight from the action of such aHorse, the animal may not stumble quite so much; or ifthe disease which produced the habit can be alleviated,some trifling good may be done, but in almost every casea stumbler should be got rid of, or put to slow and heavywork. If the latter alternative be adopted, he may trip asmuch as he pleases, for the weight of the load and the mo-tion of the other Horses will keep him upon his legs. WEAVING. This consists in a motion of the head, neck, and body,from side to side, like the shuttle of a weaver passingthrough the web, and hence the name which is given tothis peculiar and incessant action. It indicates an impa-tient, irritable temper, and a dislike to the confinement ofthe stable; and a Horse that is thus incessantly on thefret will never carry flesh, or be safe to ride or drive.There is no cure for it, but the close tying up of the ani-mal, except at feeding time. i^
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AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS. THE BLACK WOLF. CANIS NUBILUS. (Plate XXIII. Vol. 2.) Canis Li/caon; Limfi. SsREt. Saeugthiere, pi. 89. God-man, f^ol. 1. jj. 267.—LoKp Noir; Buff. 9. ))l. 41.Black Wolf: Say in Longs Expedition to the RockyMountains, p. 102, Vol. 1.—Menagerie Living Ani-mals exhibited in Philadelphia, winter of 1832—3. There was, for some time, much doubt among natu-ralists, whether the Black Wolf should be considered aseparate species, or only a variety of the common Wolf;but, on a close investigation of the internal and anatomi-cal structure, habits and general appearance of the BlackWolf, it has become a settled question that it is a differ-ent animal altogether. Of the two animals belonging to theZoological gardens of London, it is remarked, that theyexhibit real and substantial marks of distinction of suffi-cient value to sanction their separation from the otherspecies—considerably longer and more robust than thecommon Wolf, and differing greatly in the express

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