Least Weasel ; Florida Weasel 



total length. Dark brown above, tail tipped with black, belly 

 and under parts white tinged with yellow. Pure white in 

 winter with a yellow tinge on the rump, and tail black 

 tipped. 

 Range. Boreal forests south to New England and the mountains 

 of Pennsylvania. A larger variety, Richardson's weasel P. 

 cicognani richardsoni (Bonaparte), occurs in Northern British 

 America. 



This smaller, short-tailed weasel is an animal of the boreal 

 forests, overlapping in parts of its range one or other of the pre- 

 ceding long-tailed species, from which it probably differs little in 

 habits. 



Least Weasel 



Putorius rixosus Bangs 



Length. 6 inches. 



Description. Smallest of the weasels, with no black tip to the 

 tail, which is very short. Colour, dark reddish brown above, 

 white below. In winter pure white throughout. 



Range. Arctic America, south to Northern Minnesota, replaced on 

 the Artie coast of Alaska by the Eskimo we:isel P. rixosus 

 eskimo Stone. In Western Pennsylvania occurs another little 

 weasel, allied to the least weasel, the Alleghany weasel P. 

 alleghaniensis Rhoads. 



Florida Weasel 



Putorius peninsula Rhoads 



Length. 15 inches. 



Description. Never turns white in winter. Chocolate brown, 

 darker on the head, chin whitish, rest of under parts yellow- 

 ish, irregular spots of white sometimes present on the face, 

 between and behind the eyes. 



Range. Peninsula of Florida. The allied bridled weasel P. 

 frenatus {\Ad\Xtn^i\n&), with distinct white marks on the face, 

 occurs in Texas. 



This is a distinctly Southern weasel, our other Eastern weasels 



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