142 NORTH AMERICAN MUSTELID^. 



of a Chipmunk, and of a Black-beaded Grosbeak {Goniaphea 

 meJanocepliala). 



^A^ben irritated, this species diffuses a foetid odor quite as 

 strong as that of the Mink. 



The Bridled IVeasel. 



Pntorins (Gale) brasiliensis frcnatns. 



a. brasiliensis (Sewast.). 



Mustela brasiliensis, Seumst. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. iv. 1813, 356, pi. 4.—Fisch. Syn. 1829, 

 2-2-2.— Bit, -m. Abh. Xat. Ges. Halle, ii. 1854, 46.—Gerr. Cat. Bones Br. Mus. 1862, 94.— 

 6rau, Ann. Mag. K H. xiv. 1874, 374. 



-Mustela (Putoriiis) brasiliensis, DOrbig. Voy. Amer. Merid. , pi. 13, f. 3 (skull). 



Mustela (Gale) brasiliensis, Schinz, Syn. Mauim. i. 1844, 346. 



Mustela (Neogalc) brasiliensis var. brasiliana, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865,115 (type ot Neogala); 

 Cat. Cam. Br. Mua. 1869, 92. 



h. cequatorialis Coues. 



.Vlistela aureoventris, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864,55, pi. 8 (Quito; very young) (not M. OAinventer 

 Hodgs.).—Gray, P. Z. S. 1865,115 (Ecuador and ]^ew Grenada; adult); Cat. Carn. Br. 

 Mus. 18P,9, 92. 



Pntorius brasiliensis var. sequatorialis, Cmies (merely avS a substitute for Gray's preoc- 

 cupied name). 



? Mustela maerura, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, 311, pi. 48 (Central Peru). 



? Mustela afflnis, Gray, Ann. Mag. X. H. xiv. 1874, 375 (New Granada). 



c. frenatus (Licht.). 



Mustela frenata, Licht Darstellung . . . Saug. 1827-34, pi. 53 (Mexico).— A«d. cfi Bach. 



J. A. X. S. P. viii. pt. ii. lSi-2,29L— Gray, Zool. Voy. Sulphur, 1844,31, pi. 9 (head).— 



Tomes, P. Z. S. 1861,287 (Guatemala).— Graj/, List M. Br. Mhs. 1843,65.— Cermrd, Oat. 



Bones Br. Mus. 1862, 94. 

 Mustela (Gale) frenata, Wagn. Suppl. Scbreb. Saug. ii. 1841, 234. 

 Putorius frenatus. Bach. J. A. X. S. P. viii. 288.— A?(d. rf Bach. Q. X. A. ii. 1851, 71, pi. 60 



(Texas to :Monterey and southward).— Bd. M. N. A. 1857, 173, pi. 19, fig. 5 a; Mex. B. 



Surv. ii. pt. ii. 1659 : Mammals, 19, pi. 17, figs. 1 and 2, a-e.— Ooues, Am. Xat. i. 1867, 352. 

 Mustela xanthogenys. Gray, Ann. Mag. X. H. xi. 1843, 118 ; Zoiil. Voy. Sulph. 1844, 31, pi. 9 ; 



(Tft. to Pall. Zoog. 92); ListM. Br. Mus. 1843,66: P. Z. S. 186.5,115; Cat. Carn. Br. 



Mus. 1869,93; Ann. Mag. X. H xiv. 1874, 315.—Gerr. Cat. Bones Br. Mus. 1862, 94. 

 Putorius xanthogenys, Bd. B. X. A. 1857, 176, pi. 19, f. 3 a (California).— iV^e?r&. P. R. R. Rep. 



vi. 1857, 42 (San Francisco). 

 Putorius inexiranus, Berlandicr. MSS. ic. ined. 4 (Tamaulipas and Matamoras). 

 ' Comadreja ' of the Mexicans. 

 ((Compare Mustela javonica Seba, Thes. i. pi. 48, fig. 4=^ Jf. leucogenis Schinz, Syn. i. 344; not 



Japanese.— Cf. Pall. Zoog. ll.-A. i. 1811, 92, footnote.) 



Had. — Soutberu Texas to California. Up the Pacific side to San Francisco, 

 Fort Crook, and probably Astoria, Oregon. South to Guatemala. Var. 

 mjtia tori alls, thence to Ecuador. Var. brasiliensis, Brazil. 



Specific CH.\i{AcrERS.— Size and proportions of P. erminea ; top of head 

 notably different in color (darker) from the back, and blotched with white ; 

 chin white; other under parts more or less strongly tinged with tawny-yel- 

 low or orange-brown ; tail tipped with black. No seasonal change of pelage. 



