282 VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF THE UNITED STATES 



M. caurina Merriam. Pacific marten. Color rich dark brown; 

 throat orange-buff; length 625 mm.; tail 220 mm.; hind foot 90 mm.: 

 Pacific coast region from northern Cahfornia to Alaska; central and 

 southern Rockies. 



Fig. 156. — Skull of Muslela americana (from Elliot). 



Subspecies of M. caurina 



M. c. caurina Merr. Pacific coast region. 



M. c. origenes Rhoads. Colors pale: central and southern Rockies. 



M. pennanti Erxleben. Fisher; pekan. Body relatively stout; 

 color dark brown or blackish, being lighter anteriorly; legs and tip of 

 tail black; length 890 mm.; tail 355 mm.; hind foot 120 mm.: North 

 America from the Atlantic to the Pacific; southward into Maine, New 

 York and the Pennsylvania mountains; usually rare; Hudsonian, 

 Canadian and Transition zones; i litter of i to 5 young raised. 



Subspecies of M. pennanti 



M . p. pennanti Erx. Forests of northern America. 



M. p. pacifica Rhoads. Size large; length 1,090 mm.: Pacific slope 

 from California to Alaska. 



2. Gulo Storr. Body stout; tail rather short and bushy; ears very 

 short; feet partly plantigrade; claws compressed: 3 species, i in the 

 United States. 



