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Bodd. Inhabit Kamtchatka, and agreeably to 

 some authors, the United States ; I have no 

 knowledge of their existence in this country. 



Species. 



4. Mustela vison, Linn. Gmel. Desm. Mamni. 

 p. 183. Le vison, BufFon, hist. nat. torn. 13. pi. 43. 

 Minx of Americans. 



Char. Essent. General colour brown, more 

 or less deep ; point of the inferior jaw white ; 

 tail of a blackish brown ; feet demipalmated. 



Dimensions. Total length, about fifteen inches, 

 . not including the tail. 



Description. Long hairs of the body brown, 

 more or less tinged with yellow ; next the skin, a 

 thick ash coloured dow n, of a pale yellow at tip : 

 tail moderately long, blackish ; feet hairy. 



Habit. Living in holes, on the borders of 

 water ; female producing from three to six at a 

 birth ; manners similar to the preceding species. 



Inhabits Canada, and the northern and middle 

 states. 



Species. 



5. Mustela canadensis, Linn. Erxleb. Schreb. 

 Pekan iveasel, Penn. Quad. p. 331. Desm. Mamm. 

 p. 186. (Encyc. pi. 80. fig. 4.) 



Le pekan, Buffbn, hist. nat. v. 13. pi. 42. The 

 fisher, Philad. Mus. No. 736, from the western 

 states. Fisher iveasel or martin of others. 



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