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-?^. Skin (summer pelage) and skull. Adult. Arikamtchitchi 

 37990 ^ F fo / 



Island (Arikam Island), Bering Strait (see footnote in Baird's 

 Mammals of North America, p. 173), Tchuktchi Country, Si- 

 beria. Collected by W. Stimpson. Original number 358. Skin 

 cataloged March 1857; skull, January 11, 1902. 



Specimen was made into a fairly good modern study skin. The sliull was 

 removed in January 1902 ; skull Grade C 



No type specified in the original description. Baird listed two speci- 

 mens, No. 1458 from Semipalatinsk, Siberia, in winter pelage, received 

 from the Bremen Museum, through G. Hartlaub, and the above, No. 2330. 

 Most of the description appears to be based on the summer pelage. 



*Mustela lineiventer Hollister. 



Proc. Biol. See. Washington 26 : 2, Jan. 18, 1913. 

 175440. Skin and skull. Adult male. Tchegan-Burgazi Pass, al- 

 titude 9,000 feet. Little Altai Mountains, Siberia. July 10, 1912. 

 Collected by N. Hollister. Original number 4281. 



Well-made skin in good condition, right forefoot slightly injured; skull 

 Grade A. 



*Mustela lymani Hollister. 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 60 (14) : 5, Nov. 29, 1912. 

 175198. Skin and skull. Adult male. Tapucha, Altai Mountains, 

 Siberia. August 10, 1912. Collected by N. Hollister. Original 

 number 4494. 

 Well-made skin in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



*LiitreoIa macrodon Prentiss. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 26 : 887, July 6, 1903. 



=Mustela macrodon (Prentiss). See Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79: 101, 

 Dec. 31, 1912. 



115178. Fragments of skull. Pre-Columbian shell heaps, Brooklin, 

 Hancock County, Maine. 1897. Collected by F. W. True and 

 D. W. Prentiss, Jr. 



"Condition of type. — Fragment of skull composed of the superior 

 maxillae, portions of the nasals, right zygoma, and palate extending 6 mm. 

 back of molars. All of the teeth are present on the right side, three in- 

 cisors and one premolar on the left side. The teeth are in excellent con- 

 dition except the canine, which is broken at the point, and portions of 

 enamel missing. The bones are very brittle and of a yellowish color on 

 their broken surfaces." Prentiss, p. 888. 



*MusteIa meridana Hollister. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 27 : 143, July 10, 1914. 

 =Mustela frenata meridana Hollister. See Hall, Carnegie Inst. Washington 

 Publ. 473 : 110, Nov. 20, 1936. 



