66 FAUNA AMERICANA. 



Char. Essent. Head, neck, shoulders, and top 

 of the back, mixed with gray and brown ; nose, 

 rump, tail, and extremities of a blackish brown ; 

 often a white spot beneath the throat. 



Dimensions. Total length, sixteen inches ; 

 length of the tail, ten inches. 



Description. Body covered with two sorts of 

 hair, for the most part with a down of an ash 

 colour, the ends of which are gray, with some 

 shades of yellow; hairs strong, presenting the 

 same colour with the down, except at the tips, 

 which are gray and black ; some hairs of a ches- 

 nut colour tipt with black; the general colour 

 resulting from these mixtures, is a gray and yel- 

 low on the head, neck, back, shoulders and upper 

 part of the fore leg ; flanks more gray than the 

 back ; rump blackish ; lower part of the fore 

 legs, whole of the hind legs, the fore feet and 

 tail black, with some shades of brown ; in some 

 individuals, white between the fore and hind 

 legs, on the breast, and belly. 



Habit. Similar to the preceding. 



Inhabits Canada and the northern states. 



Fisher loeasel, Penn. Quad. p. 328, No. 202. 



Mustela pennanti, Erxleb. Syst. Mamm. p. 470, 

 sp. 10. 



Mustela melanorhyncha., Bodd. Elench. anim. 

 p. 88, sp. 13. 



This is probably a large variety of the pre- 

 ceding, it is an inhabitant of North America. 



