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Total length, twenty-four inches ; length of the 

 tail, seventeen inches ; ears broad, round, blackish 

 and bordered with white ; nose black ; whiskers; 

 long and silky ; face and sides of the neck of 

 a pale brown, or cinereus mixed with black ; 

 back, belly, thighs, and tail black, but the base 

 of the last brownish ; the sides of the body 

 brown ; the feet are broad and very hairy ; a nail 

 is often wanting on the hind foot ; the nails are 

 sharp, arched and white ; tail covered with long 

 hairs. 



Species. 



6. Miistcla martcs^ Linn. Erxleb. Bodd. Schreb. 

 tab. 130. La marte, Buff. hist. nat. t. 7. pi. 22. 

 The martin, Penn. Brit. Zool. p. 39. 



Mustela vison, var. Warden, hist, of the United 

 States, vol. v. p. 613. Pine martin, Sab. append, 

 to Franklin's Exped. (Encycl. pi. 81. fig. 4.) 



Chat\ Essent. Colour brown, with a clear yel- 

 low spot beneath the throat. 



Dimensions. Total length without the tail, one 

 foot six inches eight lines; of the trunk of the 

 tail nine inches nine lines ; of the head, three 

 inches ten lines ; height before, eight inches ; be- 

 hind, ten inches. 



Description. Fur formed of two sorts of hair ; 

 the first large, strong, and long, cinereus next 

 the body, then clear fawn, terminated by brown 

 mixed with shining red; the second consists of a 



