Class I. C O M M O N W E E S E L. 95 



from HudforCs hay and Canada. In one of the 

 company's fales * not fewer than 12,370 good fl<:ins, 

 and 2360 damaged ones were fold ; and about the 

 fame time, the French brought into the port of 

 Rochelle from Canada^ not lefs than 30,325. 



The principal differences between this and the 

 former kind, confift in the fize, this being lefs : the 

 bread too is yellow ; the color of the body much 

 darker, and the fur in general greatly fuperior 

 in finenefs, beauty, and value. 



TheWeafelorWeefel.Muflela Mufiela fupra rutila, infra al- 17. Commo.-m^. 



i^ulgaris : in Torkjhire, the ba. BriJJon quad. 173. 



Fitchet or Foumart. ^^zV_^'». De Biiffbn, Tom. vii. 235. 



quad. 195. Tab. 29. 



Girald. Cambrenf. 149. Gefner quad. 753. 



The Whitred. Sib. Scot. 11. Multela vulgaris. ^fe'^«fl'/.62. 



Br.Zool.ig. Syn.quad.No. 150. 



Brit. Bronwen Germ. Wifel 



Fren. La Belette Dut. Weezel 



Ital. Donnola, Ballottola, Benula S^ued. Vefla 



Span. Comadreia Dan. Vaefel 



Port. Doninha 



THIS fpecies is the left of the weefel kind ; Descrip. 

 the length of the head and body not exceed- 

 ing fix, or at moft feven inches. The tail is only 

 two inches and a half long, and ends in a point : 

 the ears are large ; and the lower part^.of them are 

 doubled in. 



* In 1743. Vide Dobbs^i account 0^ Hud/on* s bajy 200. 



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