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Miistela cicognanii cicognanii. Bonaparte Weasel. 



Black spruce — tamarack bog, i. Dry hardwood forest, 4. 



Trappers report it common throughout the areas visited. 

 We took five specimens near Little Girl's Point. Several 

 specimens taken in the Cisco Lake Region during the winter 

 of 1920-21 were presented to us by Benjamin J. Twombley, 

 and J. E. Fischer sent us a specimen taken in December, 1920, 

 near Gogebic Lake. 



Mnstela I'ison letifera. Mink. 



Forest — shore, 6. Wet hardwood forest, den. 



Reported by trappers as common throughout the area 

 studied. In the Cisco Lake Region two were trapped at the 

 water's edge beside a growth of paper birch saplings; and 

 another was shot as it was running along the bank of the 

 Ontonagon River at the edge of a stand of hemlocks. Three 

 others were seen swimming near the latter locality July 29. 

 Upon the approach of the canoe they swam rapidly to an old 

 hollow log in wet hardwood forest on shore. Around and 

 through the log well-worn runways showed evidence of the 

 presence of a den. 



MepJiitis hiidsonica. Skunk. 



Ditch-border, i. Dry hardwood forest, 5. 



Four skunks were taken in the dry hardwood forest of the 

 Cisco Lake Region, one in the same type of habitat near the 

 Little Girl's Point camp, and another in a trap set in the 

 bottom of a muddy ditch in the beaver meadow near Gogebic 

 Lake. 



An adult male, trapped July 14 in the Cisco Lake Region, 

 was badly infested with tapeworms in the middle part of the 

 small intestine. An adult female, taken July 19, was found 

 to have many tapeworms in the intestine, many nematodes in 



