82 jirsTELTH.T;. 



ISIartcs al)ietum, Hay ; dray, List M. B. 31. p. Gi', ; P. Z. S. ISO.";, 

 p. 104. 



Var. 1. vulgaris. Dark brown ; throat yellow. 



Martes vulgaris, Gray. 

 Pine-Marten, Penn. B. Z. i. p. 97. 



Var. 2. martes, Brandt, Zobel. 



Martes sylvestris, Gesner, Quad. p. 8G7, f. 866 ; Nilsson, Skand. Fauna, 



p. 171. 

 Martes sylvatica, Nihs. Sk. Faun. i. p. 41. 



Length 18 inches, tail 10. 



Hah. Europe : England and France, B.M. ; Russia, B.M. 



Var. 3. nltaica. Paler ; nose and feet brown, tail dark, throat and 



chest yellow. Intermediate between 31. ahietum and M. zihellina ; 



but the feet are not so hairy. Skull and teeth like Martes ahietum 



vulgaris. B.M. 



Martes altaica, Pallas, Zoo(/r. Ross.-Asiat. 



Ilah. Altai Mountains. 



2. Martes japonica. B.M. 



Brown ; shoulder and outside of thigh blacker ; feet Ijlack ; head, 

 chin, and upper part of throat dark red-brown ; throat and sides 

 of the neck yellow, crown paler ; the last upper tubercular grinder 

 longer on the inner side. 



Martes japonica, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 104. 



Hab. Japan. From Mus. Leyden ? 



The specimen is not in a good state ; the fur is evidently in 

 change, the tail being slender, with a long terminal pencil. It is 

 most distinct from the specimen of M. meJanopus. In the Museum 

 collection the upper tubercular grinder is smaller than in the M. 

 ahietum, and is much larger than in M. ajnericana. 



There is an indistinct patch of paler hairs in the front of the car, 

 on the left side, not seen on the other ; the pale brown on the chest 

 is marked with some small dark spots on the lower part. The skull, 

 and especially the brain-case, is broader, compared with its length, 

 than that of Martes ahietum and M. zihellina, and is intermediate in 

 form between them and M. foina. 



3. Martes brachyura. (Gezolen.) 



Fur short, fine, close, pale brown ; tail short ; ears small, rounded, 

 whitish ; feet very hairy. 



Length, body 10-17 inches, tail 3| inches. 



Miistela brachyura, Temm. Fauna Japon. p. 33 ; Schrench, Amitrland, 



p. 32. 

 Martes brachyura, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 105. 



Hab. Japan, near Zezo, and the Kurile Islands (Siebold). 

 Described from flat skins in ilus. Leyden. 



