"It's too large for a _fisher_, isn't it?
I don't know that _fishers_ are found so far north, either.

How is that ?" "Hearne, in his 'Northern Journey,' speaks of the fisher being met with, farther west, in latitude as far north as this," said I.
"But that's too big for a fisher," said Raed; "too thick and heavy.

A fisher is slimmer." "Who knows but it may be a new species!" exclaimed Kit, laughing.
"Now's a chance to distinguish ourselves as naturalists.

If we can discover a new animal of that size in this age of natural history, and prove that we are the discoverers, it will be monument enough for us: we can then afford to retire on our laurels.

Call it a long Latin name, and tack our own names, with the ending _ii_ or _us_ on them, to that, and you're all right for distant posterity.