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/Specimens. — Eight, one being from each of the following locali- 

 ties: An indeterminate spot in Manchuria; Imienpo, Manchuria; 

 Sianfu, Shensi, and 90 miles west southwest thereof; Taiyuanfu, 

 Shansi; Tseogiakeo, Szechwan; and the Salween-Mekong divide 

 in Yunnan. 



When sufficient skulls are available it is probable that the north 

 and west China martens may with propriety be resolved into two 

 or more valid forms. The coloration of this species is. however, 

 exceedingly variable and all of the color characters that have been 

 ascribed to the several races named from this area are well within 

 the range of individual variation. Unfortunately, most of the speci- 

 mens secured are hunters' skins, without skulls or measurements. 

 The two Manchurian pelts differ from each other fully as much as 

 they do from the Shensi individuals and can not be called koreana. 

 The one from Shansi is not greatly different from another from 

 Fukien provisionally called hiuitanensis. The Yunnan skin is very 

 dull colored and that from Szechwan very bright; and they exhibit 

 no characters by which szetchuensis might be recognized. 



CHARRONIA FLAVIGULA KUATUNENSIS (Bonliotc) 



Mustela flavigula huatunenais Bonhote, Ann. Mag. Nut. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 7, 

 1901, p. 348 (Kuatuu, Fukien, China). 



Specimen. — One from 75 miles southwest of Yenpingfu, Fukien. 



This identification is but tentative as the validity of the race has 

 not 3^et been established. The above example differs from true 

 ■flavigula only in the slightly darker underparts. 



Genus MUSTELA Linnaeus 



MUSTELA NIVALIS MOSANENSIS Mori 



Mustela nivalis mosancnsis Mosi, Journ. Chosen Nat. Hist. Soc, 1927, p. 1 

 (Yengan, near Mosan, nortlieast Korea). 



Specimen. — One from 60 miles southwest of Kirin, Manchuria. 



This fine skin without skull is markedly smaller (177 by 38 by 24 

 mm.) than the measurements given by Mori and should not be con- 

 sidered as typical; but it is definitely not pygmaea. It is darker 

 than an}' of the considerable number of true nivalis in the national 

 collection and can be matched (and exactly) only by certain skins 

 of the American species riccosa. 



MUSTELA species 



Specimens. — Two. from 70 miles northwest of Taiyuanfu. Shansi, 

 and 40 miles west of Sining, Kansu. 



These two specimens of small weasels belong to entirely different 

 groups. As there is not a single other comparable specimen in the 



