ADDITIONAL RECORDS OF THE ALLEGHENIAN 

 LEAST WEASEL IN WISCONSIN. 



By Henry L. Ward. 



In this Bulletin for January 1907 (Vol. V, No. 1) pp. 64-65,. 

 I recorded the first know instance of this small weasel's occur- 

 rence within the state, the specimen mentioned having been taken 

 at Burlington. Racine Co. Since then until recently I have un- 

 availingly striven - to obtain other specimens or to learn anything 

 further regarding its presence in Wisconsin. 



Last fall my friend E. D. Ochsner of Prairie du Sac was at 

 the museum and I was greatly interested to hear him state, when 

 shown the skin of the previously reported specimen, that he had 

 two of the same kind. in his possession. He has recently sent me 

 these, which he had mounted, and one has been dismounted in 

 order to permit of an examination of its skull. They agree so 

 well in external features that I have no hesitancy in pronouncing 

 them subsnecificallv identical: Putorius rixosus allcgheniensis 

 (Rhoads.)." 



Both sexes are represented. The female was captured alive 

 in November 1902, in the Town of Sumpter, Sauk Co., and kept 

 in captivity until its death, December 26, 1902. Mr Ochsner 

 states that it "was brown over back when taken." This color was 

 largely lost during its period of captivity and the specimen now is 

 mostly in its white winter coat. From between the shoulders for- 

 ward to the eves the dorsal surface is chestnut in a pattern resemb- 

 ling a certain type of broad, straight-stemmed Indian arrowhead, 

 its°apex lying between the shoulders and the constriction of the 

 stem beginnins: three or four millimeters back of the ears. It is 

 suggestive to note that the breaking up of tho chestnut on the 

 facial region has left a rather definite bridle pattern. Above the 

 nose pad is a transverse bar of chestnut somewhat wider than the 

 rhinarium, from .the center of this is a narrow mesial line to the 

 arrow-shaped chestnut patch above mentioned, while from both 

 its extremities extend lateral lines passing above and half circling 

 the eyes. The ears are chestnut but are separated from the occi- 

 pital patch of the same color by a narrow posterior extension of 

 the white of the temporal region. The basal two-thirds of the tail 



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