Glass I. 



STOAT. 



nivalis *. I have met with it in that circumdance, 

 in the ide of Ilav, 



8^ 



Muftela Candida, animal er- Fig. 2, Tab. 31. Fig. i. 18. Stoat, 

 mineum, Raii fyn quad. 198 Gefner quad. 753. OR Ermine. 



Mort. Northampt. 44.2 

 Meyer'' s an. ii. Tab. 23, 24. 

 Muftela hieme alba, a;rtate fu- 

 pra rutila infra alba, caudal 

 apice nigro. BriJ/hn quad. 



176. 



De Buffon, vii. 240. Tab. 29. 



Mullela crminca. M. plan- 

 tis filfis, caudae apice atro. 

 Lin. JyJ}. 68. Faun. Suec. 



Po7itcp.Nori.vay. Part li. p. 25. 

 Br. Zool. 40. Syn. quad. No. 

 151. 



THE length of the float to the origin of the tail, 

 is ten inches : that of the tail is five inches 

 and a half. The colors bear fo near a refemblance 

 to thofe of the weefel, as to caufe them to be con- 

 founded together by the generality of common 

 obfervers ; the weefel being ufually miftaken for 

 a fm.ali float : but thefe animals have evident and 

 invariable fpecific differences, by which they may 

 be eafily known. Firfl, by the fize ; the weefel 

 being ever lefs than the float : fecondly, the tail 

 of the latter is always tipt with black, is longer in 



* Similima Ermineo fed dimidio minor ^ caudce apice pilo <vix 

 Tino altero've albo. Faun. Suec. No. 18, Syji, Nat, 69. 



Vol. I. H propor- 



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