142 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
draw water.” This is the one alluded to by Jerdon as having been 
described by Mr. Bennett in the ‘Gardens and Menageries of the 
Zoological Society.’ Martes Gwatkinsi of Horsfield’s Catalogue 
(page 99), is evidently, as Jerdon says, the same as JZ. flavigula, 
although the colouring is different, and is supposed to be the same 
animal in its summer fur, some specimens being darker than others. It 
is just one hundred years since this little animal was first described, the 
earliest record of it being in Pennant’s ‘History of Quadrupeds’ (first 
edition), published in 1781. It must, however, have been known before 
that, for Pennant first observed it in Brooks’s Menagerie in 1774, and 
named it the “ White-cheeked Weasel,’ which Boddart afterwards in 
1785 introduced into his ‘Elenchus Animalium’ under the name of 
Mustela flavigula (Horsfield). 
No. 178. MARTES ABIETUM. 
The Pine Marten. 
Hasgirat.—Ladakh and the Upper Himalayas, Afghanistan (?) 
DescripTioN.—Brown; throat yellow or yellow spotted (Gray). 
Light yellowish-grey, rather deeper in a line along the back; the hair 
Martes abietum. 
brown ; extremities blackish; chin, throat and breast white (according 
to Horsfield). ’ 
S1zE.—About 18 to 20 inches ; tail 12 inches. 
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