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on the lefb, but not reaching the white of the throat, nor 

 above the level of the eye. 



Spec. 4, J" ad., dark: a few scattered white hairs in 

 front of the left ear. 



Spec. 5, c? ^cl. rather dark: 6 — 7 scattered white hairs 

 between the eyes, a comparatively well developed, but partly 

 broken, white oblique streak on either side in front of 

 the ear. 



Spec. 6, 5 ad.: a short white streak in front of the righ t 

 ear, only some few scattered hairs on the left side. 



Spec. 7 c? ad.: a frontal spöt, and a well developed band 

 on either side confluent with the white throat. 



Spec. 8, J" ad., påle: a few white hairs form a broken 

 line between the eyes; sparsely set hairs form also oblique 

 lines on both sides in the temporal region, on the right 

 reaching the throat. 



Spec, 9, J" ad., rather påle: without any white facial 

 markings. 



Spec. 10, 5 ad. dark: two small interorbital spöts, on 

 the right side a spöt, on the left side a short streak in the 

 temporal region. In addition to this there are some single 

 white hairs scattered on the upper neck and above the 

 shoulders.^ 



From this is evident that these white facial markings sel- 

 dom are entirely absent in the Weasels from Ecuador, but 

 at the same time that the degree of development is very 

 variable, and it is not the palest specimens which have the 

 best markings. 



Light markings on the före feet are also present in five 

 specimens in a variable degree: in spec. 5 a small spöt at 

 the base of the first finger of the right side; in spec. 4 a 

 similar spöt at the base of the third finger on the right 

 hand; spec. 7 and 10 have light spöts and mottlings on the 

 inner side of the metacarpal region of both hands; spec. 3 

 has on the right side the outer parts of the digits white and 

 the hand mottled, on the left side the fingers except the 

 fifth are white and this colour extends upwards on the inner 

 side of the limb. As this specimen is rather dark, it proves 



' Two cTcf received at a låter opportunity ara very different with 

 regard to the white markings, as they were entirely absent in one and 

 like those of n:o 7 in the other. 



