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Genus LUTREOLA Wagner. 



31. Lutreola vison Schreber. Mink. 



32. Lutreola vison vulgivagus (Bangs). Louisiana Mink. 



Only one specimen of mink from Tennessee has passed through 

 my hands. It is a skull of a mink taken at Open Lake in Lauder- 

 dale County, by Mr. Miles. This si^ecimen corresponds so closely 

 to Mr. Bangs' diagnosis of vulgivagus, as contrasted with typical 

 vison, that I am induced to class it with the former, but the cranial 

 differences in vulgivagus, however, constant they may have proved, 

 do not appear to me specific. There is little doubt that the minks 

 of eastern Tennessee are tyjiical vison}^ 



Specimen — Open Lake, Lauderdale Co., 1. 



Genus PUTOEIUS Cuvier. 



33. Putorius noveboracensis Emmons. Carolina Weasel. 



This weasel is said to be common in West Tennessee, and, from 

 what we know of its general distribution, is nowhere rare. Regard- 

 ing the possible occurrence of the Canadian Weasel, Putorius rich- 

 ardsoni cicognani (Bonap.), in the Smoky Mountains, Mr. Outram 

 Bangs, who has been making a special study of the eastern forms, 

 writes me that Putorius noveboracensis is numerous on Roan Mount- 

 ain but that cicognani he has " never seen from any locality south 

 of the lower Hudson Valley, although it may occur in Pennsyl- 

 vania and West Virginia." 



Genus MUSTELA Linnaeus. 



34. Mustela pennanti (Erxl.). Fisher. Pekan. 



There is little doubt that the Pekan was long ago exterminated 

 in East Tennessee, as none of the hunters with whom I conversed 

 knew of such an animal. Dr. Merriam includes it among the 

 Alleghenian species not to be found on Roan Mountain in 1887. 

 Audubon and Bachman" speak of this animal's occurrence in the 

 State as follows : " We have seen several skins procured in East 

 Tennessee and have heard of at least one individual that was 

 captured near Flat Rock in that State, latitude 35°." 



" To these may be added L. vison lutreocephalus (Harlan) which Mr. Bangs, 

 (Proc. Bos. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1896, pp. 1-6.) considers separable from true 

 X. vison of the Boreal zone. The latter Mr. Bangs thinks may range into 

 the higher Alleghenies of North Carolina. On this basis I retain the name 

 as above listed under No. 31. 



I'^Quad. N. Amer., 1, p. 314. 



