SYNONYMY OF MUSTELA AMERICANA. 81 



The American J*iaS>!e or ^larteii. 



Hastela auierieaiia. 



Plate V. 



Mustela martes, Forst. Phil. Trans. Ixii. 1772, 372.— J". Sab. Frankl. Journ. 1S23, 651.— ffarZ. 

 Fn. Amer. 1825, 67 (quotes a '' Mxistela visoji yar.'')— Warden, Hist. U. S. t. 1819, 613.— 

 Rich. F. B. A. i. 1829, 51, no. iH.— Gapp. Zool. Journ. v, 1830, 203— Godm. Am, N. H. 

 1. 1831, 200.— Emmons, Kep. Quad. Mass. 1840, 40.— De K. N. Y. Zool. i. 1842, 32, pi. 11, 

 f. 2, pi. 19. f. 2 (skull).— J.u(Z. <£ Bach. Q. N. A. iii. 1853, 176, pi. IZt^.—Thomps. N. H. 

 Vermont, 1853, :S2.— Billings, Canad. Nat. and Geol. ii. 1857, 463.— AZ^en, Bull. M. C. 

 Z. i. 1870, 161 (critical).— JSTemi. Tr. 111. State Agric. Soc. for 1853-54, 1855, bl8.—All. 

 Bull. Ess. Inst. vi. 1874, 54, 59 (Colorado and Wyoming).— iTaZi, Canad. Xat. and 

 Geol. vi. 1861, 295. 



Mustela americana, Txirton, ed. L. S. X. i. 1806, m.—Bd. M. X. A. 1857, 152, pi. 36, f. 2 (skull), 

 pi. 37, f. 1 (skull).— Te2C'&. P. E. K. Rep. vi. 1857, 41.— Kneel. Pioc. Bost. Soc. X. H. vL 

 1858, 41d.—Coop. <£ Suckl. X. H. W. T. 1860, 92.— Eoss, Canad. Nat. vi. 1861, 25.— Gilpin, 

 Tr. Nov. Scot. Inst. ii. 1870, 10, 59.— Ames, Bull. Minn. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1874, 69.— 

 Coues cC- Yarrow, Zool. Expl. W. 100 Merid. v. 1875, 61 (Taos, N. M.).— Allen, Bull. TJ. S. 

 Geol. Surv. vol. ii. no. 4, 1876, 328 (skull). 



Alartes americana, Graij, P. Z. S. 1865, 106; Cat. Cam. Br. Mus. 1869, 84. 



Martes americana vars. abietinoides, huro, et leucopus, Gray, II. cc. 



Mustela zibellina var. americana, Brandt, Beit. Saug. Russl. 1855, 16, pi. 3, f. 10 (critical). 



Mustela zibellina, Godm. Am. Nat. Hist. i. 1831, 208 (refers to true Sable, but the Amer- 

 ican species described). 



Mustela TUlpina, Baf. Am. J. Sc. i. 1819, 82; Phil. Mag. 1819, 411; Isis, 1834, 452.(rpper 

 Missouri Eiver) (tail white at eud).—Fisch. Syu. 1829, 215. 



Mustela (Martes) TUlplna, Schinz, Sjn. Mamm. i. 1844, 337. 



Mustela leucopus, Kuhl, Beit. 1820, 14.—Fisch. Syh. 1829, 216. 



Mustela (Martes) leucopus, Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 1844, 337. 



Martes leucopus, Gray, List Mamm. Br. Mus. 1843, 63.—Gerr. Cat. Bones Br. Mus. 1852, 91. 



Mustela leucopus. Griff. Cuv. E. A. v. 1827, 126, no. 357. 



Mustela huro, F. Cuv. Diet. Sci. Nat. xxix. 1823, 256 ; Suppl. Batf. i. 1831, 221.— Zs. Geoff. 

 Diet. Class. X. 211.— Fisch. Syn. 1829, 217. 



Mustela (Martes) huro, Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 1844, 337. 



Mustela marlinus, Ames, Bull. Minn. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1874, 69. 



Martin or Marten, Pine Marten, American Sable, of American writers. 



Wawpeestau, Wawbeechins, Wappanow, Indian (Richardson). 



Description and discussion of tJie species.* 



This animal is about the size of a large House Cat, tliough 

 standing much lower on account of the shortness of the legs. 

 The length of the head and body is about a foot and a half, 

 more or less ; the tail with the hairs is a foot long or less ; the 

 tail- vertebrae are less than half as long as the head and body. 

 The tail is very full and bushy, particularly toward the end, 

 the reverse of the tapering pointed shape which obtains in 21. 

 pennanti. The longer hairs of the tail at and near the end 

 measure about 3 inches. The head is quite broadly triangular, 

 or rather conical, with the contraction of the muzzle beginning 



* Prepared from numerous specimens in the Smithsonian Institution. 



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