146 Mammals of Eastern Asia 
The Sables, Martes zibellina, are brown, with the foreneck 
and throat colored like the body; the throat patch varies from 
dusky to salmon ; the underfur is pale brown. The tail is propor- 
tionately shorter than that of M. foina. The Sable ranges across 
northern Asia from the Ural Mountains to Ussuri and the 
shore of the Okhotsk Sea. Its southern limit is marked at lat. 
N. 45°, about opposite Yezo Island in Japan. It occurs on Sak- 
halin. It is also found in the Kamchatka Peninsula and the 
adjoining parts of the continent north of it. 
The typical Sable is from European Russia. Several eastern 
races have been distinguished: M. z. sajanensis from the Sa- 
jansk Mountains area, M. z. yeniseensis from the basin of the 
Yenisei River, M. z. princeps from around Bargusin, east of 
Lake Baikal, M. z. kamtschadalica from Kamchatka, and M. z. 
sahalinensis from Sakhalin. 
The length of the head and body in the Siberian Sable is 
14 to 16 inches, of the tail 5 to 5% inches; of the hind foot, 
without the claws, 3 to 3% inches. In the Kamchatka Sable, 
the equivalent measurements are rather more, 19 to 20 inches, 
5 to 7 inches, 3 to 4 inches (Ognev). 
The Yellow- throated Martens, genus Charronia (= Lam- 
pro gale) are larger than Martes and strikingly colored with 
yellow and black. The upper lip lacks the vertical groove at the 
middle, seen in Martes. The body is long and heavy, the tail 
cylindrical, the legs rather short. There is virtually only one 
species, C. flavigida, although the representative of the genus 
in southern India, gwatkinsii, is sometimes treated as a second 
species. Charronia flavigida becomes fully as large as a Cat. The 
color, though variable, is normally brown, darkening to blackish 
brown of the lower back and tail. The throat is orange. The 
length of the head and body is from 1 foot 10 inches to 2 feet, 
of the tail from 15 to 17 inches, hind foot 3% to 4% inches. 
Females are smaller. 
The typical race of the Yellow-throated Marten occurs from 
