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 GENUS MUSTELA. 



"Sea Otter Mustela lutris."=Enhydris lutris (Linn.) Fleming. 

 "Common Otter Mustela lutra."=Lutra vulgaris (Erxl.). 



"Canada Otter Mustela Canadensis."=Lutra canadensis (Schreb.) Turton, 

 Turton included America in the habitat of the European Otter, L, 

 vulgaris, but alludes to another species (Syst. Nat., 1802, 57.) as "Black; 

 fur smooth; tail long, taper," applying to it the name "Canadensis," 

 with "North America" for its habitat. Dr. Coues, (Fur B. Anim., 1877, 

 295.) gives this of Turton priority over any other name applicable to the 

 American Otter, expressly stating in parentheses to reference that the 

 "Mustela canadensis" of Turton is not the M. canadensis of Schreber. 

 While this is literally true, there is a ' 'Mustela lutra canadensis^ ' de- 

 scribed, indexed and figured by Schreber (Saugt. iii, 1778, 458 and 588 ; 

 PI, cxxvi, B.) which undoubtedly refers to the animal in question. 

 Though put in trinomial form, and as a variety only, of the European 

 animal, there are good reasons why this name of Schreber should be 

 first accredited to him and not to Turton. The "Mustela canadensis" of 

 Schreber (1778) is the same animal as "M. pennantii of Erxleben (1777). 

 Erxleben's M. canadensis is the Mink, Lutreola vison. Owing to its 

 page sequence in the Saugthiere the name "canadensis" is applicable 

 to only one member of the genus Mustela as Schreber defines it, and 

 that (if recognized as a tenable form) is the trinomial "M. Lutra cana- 

 densis." The other, in such an event, is a synonym. 



For discussion of synonymy of Enhydris lutris, see Coues (sup. cit.), for 

 that of ''Mustela canadensis" (sic), see Baird, Mam. N. Arner., 1857, 141. 



~ American Mint, 

 Schreb. , Saug., iii, 1778, 463; PI. 127 B. 



"Fisher Weasel Mustela nigra." This name is original with Turton. 

 In the 1802 edition of his System it follows his "M. Canadensis, Pekan, " 

 of which it is a synonym. Turton evidently based nigra on the Fisher 

 Weasel of Pennant, (Syn. Quad., 1771, 223). 



"Common Weasel Mustela vulgaris."=Putorius vulgaris (Erxl.). Ord 

 agrees with Turton that this species is cosmopolitan, as also the Ermine 

 P. erminea (Linn.). See Coues, (Fur B. An., 1877, 136), on this subject. 



"PEKAN MUSTELA HUDSON '/US." Ord is certainly responsible for this 

 name of the Mustela pennantii of Erxleben. He has justly discarded Tur- 

 ton's name canadensis as a synonym, because of its use under this genus 

 on a previous page, for the Otter, (vid. sup. cit.). 



"American Sable Mustela Americanus." Turton's claim to precedence 

 in thus naming the American, as distinct from the European, Marten, is- 

 "well established. 



