CARNIV.ORA : MARTENS, WEASELS, ETC. 



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Those known as Martens (Musteld) have thirty-eight 

 teeth, and are arboreal in their habits. Such are the 

 Fisher, which is two feet Jong to the tail, and of a black 

 color ; the American Sable, which is seventeen inches long 

 to the tail, of a reddish-yellow, clouded with black, and 

 which yields the highly prized furs known as Hudson Bay 

 Sable ; and the Siberian Sable, so celebrated for furnishing 

 the costly fur known as Russian Sable. 



The Weasels and Minks have the body exceedingly 

 slender, and thirty-four teeth. The "Weasels are brown 

 in summer and white in winter, with the tip of the tail 

 black. The costly fur known as ermine is furnished by 

 a weasel of the cold parts of Europe and Asia. Weasels 

 are all very small animals, having the body only from six 

 or eight inches to less than a foot in length. Minks are 

 about seventeen inches long to the tail, and their color is 

 dark-brown or black in summer and winter. Both Weasels 

 and Minks belong to the genus Putorius. 



The Wolverines (Gulo) have a much stouter body than 



FIG. 88. 



Glutton or Wolverine, Gulo luscus, Sabinc. 



