THE INTERIOR. ^ 



FNITED STATES GEOLOGIbitl SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES. 

 F. V. HAYDEN, U. S. GEOLOGIST. 



MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS, No. 8. 



/^ 



FUR-BEARING ANIMALS: 



A MONOaRAPH 



OF 



North American Mustelid^, 



IX WHICH AN ACCOUNT OF 



THE WOLV EBEIfE, THE MARTENS OK SABLES, THE ERMINE, THE MINK 



AND VARIOUS" OTHER KINDS OF WEASELS, SEVERAL SPECIES OF 



SKUNKS, THE BADGER, THE LAND AND SEA OTTERS, AND 



NUMEROUS EXOTIC ALLIES OF THESE ANIMALS, 



[S CONTRIBUTED TO THE 



%. 



"P^^ 



HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICAN MAMMAELr^- 

 ELLIOTT OOUBS, 



ILLUSTRATED WITH SIXTY rlGURES ON TWENTY PLATE* 



WASHINGTON: 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 



1877. 



