Class I. M A R T I N. 93 



The ears are broad, rounded and open : the 

 back, fides, and tall, are covered with a fine thick 

 down, and with long hair intermixed : the bottom 

 is afh-colored : the middle of a bright chefnut 

 color : the tips black : the head brown, with 

 fome flight cad of red : the legs and upper fides of 

 the feet are of a chocolate color: the palms, or un- 

 der fides, are covered with thick down like that 

 on the body : the feet are broad : the claws white, 

 large and fharp; well adapted for climbing trees, 

 which in this country are its conftant refidence. 

 The throat and breaft are white : the belly of the 

 fame color with the back, but rather paler: the 

 hair on the tail is very long; efpecially at the end, 

 where it appears much thicker than near the ori- 

 ain of it: the hair in that part is alfo darker. But 

 martins vary in their colors, inclining more or 

 iefs to afh-color, according to their ages or the fea- 

 fons they are taken in. 



The (kin and excrements of this animal have a Fine Smelt., 

 fine mufky fcent-, and are entirely free from that 

 ranknefs which diftinguifhes the other fpecies of this 

 genus : the fkin is a valuable fur ; and much ufed 

 for linings to the gowns of magiftrates. 



Martes 



