PUTORIUS LUTREOLA— PUTORIUS SIBIRICUS. 171 



P. vison. — Back upper molar large, with great constriction across the mid- 

 dle, making an hourglass-shape, the -inner moiety of which is nearly twice 

 as large as the outer [40 specimens seen]. Averaging larger; upper lip 

 normally dark. 



Pntorins (liUtreola) lutreola,— European Mink. 



Yiverra lutreola, L. Fn. Suec. 2d ed. 1761, 5, no. 13.— Pall. Spic. Zool. xiv. 1780, 46, pi. 21, f. a.; 



Zoog. R.-A. i. 1831, 80, no. 23. 

 Mustela lutreola, L. S. N. i. 1766, 66, no. 3 {¥mlan(]i).—Schreber, Sang. iii. 1778, 462, pi. 125.— 



Lepech. Itiu. i. , 176, pi. \2.—Qm. S. N. i. 1788, 94, n. 3.—Turt. S. N. i. 1806, 58.— Miss. 



Skand. Fu. 11, 152.— Less. Man. 1827, Ul.—Falck, Act. Soc. Sc. Fenn. ii. 1847, 523.— Gieb. 



Sang. 1855, 484. 

 Mustela (Lutreola) lutreola, Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. 1844, 346. 

 Lutra lutreola, Shaw, G. Z. i. 1800, U3.—Glog. N. Act. Acad. Nat. Curios, xiii. 501. 

 Putorius lutreola. Griff. Cuv. R. A. v. 1827, 122, no. 341.— Brandt, Bern. Wirb. Xord. Eur. 



Eussl. 1856, 21 .—Anjubault, Bull. Soc. Agric. Sarthe, xiii; Rev. Mag. Zool. 1863, 77 (see 



Brehmer, Arch. Vereins Mecklenb. 1863, 291; Taragon, Rev. Zool. xv. 357; Heinzel, 



Verli. Ntrf. Vereins Briinn. i, 1862, 18). 

 FcetoriUS lutreola, iv. d:B. Wirb. Eur. 1840, 69, no. 1A8.—Bla$. Wirb. Deutscbl. 1857, 234, no. 5 



(der IS ovz).— Struck. Arch. Nat. Mecklenb. xiii. 1859, 13^.— Krause, Peterm. Geog. 



Mitth. 1866, 425. 

 Vison lutreola, Gray, List Mamm. Br. Mus. 1843, 64 (includes both species) ; P. Z. S. 1865, 



117 Cat. Carn. Br. Mus. 1869, 94.— Gerr. Cat. Bones Br. Mus. 1862, 92 (includes both 



species),— If. Schmidt, Zool. Gart. 1865, 168, fig. 

 lutra miuor, Brxl. Syst. An. i. 1777, 451, no. 3 (mixed with P. vison). 

 Mank, Nurek, Tulicuri, Noerza, Norz, Nbrz, Nserz, Nurtz, Authors. 

 Kleine Fischotter, Sumpfotter, Germ. 

 Niirz, Martens, Zool. Gart. xi. 1870, 278 (philological). 



The characters of this species are sufficiently indicated m the text above. 

 Gerrard gives the caudal vertebrae as 17. 



Putorius (liUtreola?) sihiricus.— Siberian Mink. 



Mustela Sibirica, PaZZ. Itin, ii. app. 701 ; Spic. Zool. 1780, xiv. 89, pi. 4, fig. 2; Zoog. R.-A. L 

 1831, 90, pi. l.—Erxl. Syst. 1777, 471, no. 11.— Schreb. Siiug. iii. 1778, 495, pi. 133 B.— 

 Zimm. Geogr. Gesch. ii. 1780, 306, no. 202.— (?m. S. N. i. 1788, 98, no. l^.—Turt. S. N. i. 

 1806, Ql.—Desm. Mamm. i. 1820, 177, no. 272; ISTouv. Diet. xix. 369.— Pr. Cuv. Diet. Sci. 

 Nat. xxix. 249.— is. Geoff. Diet. Class, x. 212.— Gray, List Mamm. Br. Mus. 1843, 66.— 

 Gerr. Cat. Bones Br. Mus. 1862, 94.— G^"e&. Siiug. 1855, 781. 



Yiverra Sibirica, Shaw, Gen. Zool. i. 1800, 431. 



Putorius sibirica. Griff. Cuv. R. A. v. 1827, 122, no. 346. 



Vison sibirica, Gray, P. Z. S. 1665, 117; Cat. Cam. Br. Mus. 1869, 94. 



(?) " Mustela italsi, Temm. Fn. Jap. 34, pi. 7, f. 2 {natsi by misprint on plate)."— (Gray.) 



Putois tie Siberie, Cuv. R. A. i. 148. 



Chorock, "SonninVs Bufibn, xxxv. 19." 



Kulon, Tartars. 



Kulonnok, Chorok, Russian. 



(No. 1451, Mus. Smiths., from the Bremen Museum.) This animal is a Pu- 

 torius (teeth ,34), and may come near the Minks, as the toes appear to be ex- 

 tensively semi-palmate and the ears are very short. The general aspect, 

 however, is that of a Ferret or Polecat, P. foetidus, like which species, and 

 like P. nigripes, it has dark facial markings contrasted with white surround- 

 ings. The tail is long and bushy, about as it would be in a Marten (Mustela) 

 of the same size. The color is peculiar— a uniform, clear, rich, fulvous or 

 tawny brown ("buff" or "fawn" color), scarcely paler below, the tail 



