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U. S. P. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS—ZOOLOGY—GENERAL REPORT, 
List of specimens. 
Catalog’ e 
number. 
1015 
1009 
1008 
1477 
2000 
2246 
3080 
1073 
1848 
Locality. 
Fort Dalles, O. T.-.---- 
Saranac Lake, N. Y .--- 
Essex county, N. Y ---- 
Madrids IN. Wo 54s 
Bone Cave, Carlisle, Pa..| 
When 
collected. 
1855. 
at- 00-4 
See OOs san 
beeedOcrs. 
ie Adoet-2e 
Whence obtained. 
Dr. George Suckley. 
eee dos. = 22 
eases dana ne a= 
Pla = Gers serse 
peep eee ages ne 
MM. Baker J-22le2¢ 
Dr. S. E. Hale----- 
E. A. Dayton --.-- - 
S.i Bards. 2225 
Original Nature of spe- 
number. cimen. 
Head and 
body. 
24 
24 
Tail, 
verteb. 
14 
12 
MUSTELA AMERICANA, Turton. 
American Sable; Pine Marten. 
Mustela americanus, Turrons Linnaeus, I, 1806, 60. 
Mustela vulpina, Rarinesque, Am. J. Se. I, 1819, 82. 
Fiscuer, Synopsis, 1829, 215. 
Mustela leucopus, Kunv. Beitrage, 1820, 74. 
Fiscuer, Syn. 1829, 216. 
Mustela martes, Jos. Sasine, Zool. App. to Narr. Franklin’s Journey, 1823, 651. 
Haran, Fauna Americana, 1825, 67. 
Ricu, F. Bor. Am. I, 1829, 51. 
Gaprer, Zool. Jour. V, 1830, 203. 
Gopman, Am. N. H. 1, 1831, 200. 
Dexay, N. Y. Zool. I, 1842, 32; pl. xi. f. 2; pl. xix. f. 2, (skull.) 
Avup. & Bacn. N. A. Quad. III, 1853, 176; pl. exxxviii, (L. Huron.) 
* Mustela huro, F. Cuv. Dict. des Sc. Nat. XXIX, 1823, 256.—Is. Suppl. Buff. Mam. I, 1831, 221. 
Fiscuer, Syn. 1829, 217. 
Mustela zibellina, Pauvas, Spicil. Zool. XIV,.57-68.—In. Zool. Rosso- As. I, 1831, 84. 
Gopman, Am. N. H. I, 1831, 208. 
Mustela zibellina, var. americana, Brandt Beitrage, Siugethiere Russland, 1855, 16; tab. iii, f. 10. 
(From Upper Mo. 
Specimen in N. Y. Lyceum.) 
Toend of 
hairs. 
Pine Marten, Pennant, Hist. Quad. 1781, No. 200.—Is. Arctic Zool. I, 1784, 76. (From sp. in Leverian Mus.) 
Sp. Cu.—Legs and tail blackish. General color reddish yellow, clouded with black; above becoming lighter towards the 
head, which is sometimes white. A broad yellowish patch on the throat, widening below so as to touch the legs. Central line 
of belly sometimes yellowish. Tail vertebra, about ; the head and body. Outstretched hind feet reach about to the middle of 
the tail with the hairs. 
Feet densely furred. 
Body stouter than in the ermine weasels, though less bulky than in JL. pennantit. Head 
somewhat depressed, acute, and broader than might be looked for with so lengthened a skull. 
The ears are large and thickened ; both sides densely coated with short velvety hairs, overlaid 
by stiff longer ones, which do not extend to the margins of the ears. 
The vertebre of the tail 
are about half as long as the body, exclusive of the head; the entire tail nearly two-thirds the 
length of head and body. The outstretched hind feet reach but little more than half way to the 
tip of the tail. 
The legs are rather short and robust; the feet densely coated with fur; the 
