JUNE 9, 1899 VoL. I, PP. 53-57 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
THREE NEW WEASELS FROM NORTH AMERICA. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
Or the three weasels here described, one is the southern yellow- 
bellied race of Putorius noveboracensis, which now seems to me 
worth naming; another is a large long-tailed form, related to 7. 
noveboracensis, that I have lately got in some numbers from Bucks- 
port, Maine; and the third is a form of P. xanthogenys, from the 
coastal strip of California north of San Francisco Bay — smaller, 
with a shorter tail, and more richly colored, than the typical race 
of southern California. All three, of course, belong to the sub- 
genus Arctogale. 
Putorius noveboracensis notius' subsp. nov. 
Type, from Weaverville, Buncombe Co., North Carolina, &, young, no. 
2678, coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs, collected July 10, 1892, by J. S. Cairns. 
Subspecific characters.— Similar to true P. noveboracensis, but darker brown 
above and yellow instead of white below. 
Color.— Summer pelage: upper parts, dark chocolate brown verging on seal 
brown; under parts, soft maize yellow; end of tail black, not sharply defined 
against the dark brown of basal portion — the black occupying nearly half the 
length of tail. Winter pelage similar, not so drabby as winter pelage of true 
P. noveboracensts. 
Measurements. — No. 1247, coll. of American Museum of Natural History, 
New York, ¢ adult, from Raleigh, N. C., collected by H. H. and C. S. 
1 Notius — southern. 
