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chin, throat, sides of neck and chest white; tail half as long as 
body and head, concolorous with the back; feet whitish. Sometimes 
chest brown and white mottled, according to Gray. Hodgson, who 
discovered the animal, writes: “Colour throughout cinnamon red 
without black tip to the tail, but the chaffron and entire head and neck 
below hoary.” ; 
SIZE.—15% inches; tail without hair 73 inches, with hair 94 inches. 
No. 185. MUSTELA STOLICZKANA. 
HasitaT.—Yarkand. 
Description.—Colour pale sandy brown above ; hairs light at base, 
white below ; tail concolorous with back; small white spot close to 
anterior angle of each eye ; a sandy spot behind the gape; feet whitish. 
S1zE.—Head and body, 12°2; tail, 3 inches, including hair, 
No. 186. MUSTELA (VISON) SIBIRICA. 
Hasirat.—Himalayas (Thibet ?) ; Afghanistan (Candahar). 
DEscRIPTION.—Pale brown ; head blackish, varied; spot on each 
side of nose, on upper and lower lips and front of chin, white ; tail end 
pale brown like back, varies ; throat more or less white. 
This Weasel, described first by Pallas (‘Specil Zool.’ xiv. t. 4, f. 1.) 
was obtained in Candahar by Captain T. Hutton, who describes it~in 
the ‘ Bengal Asiatic Society’s Journal,’ vol. xiv. pp. 346 to 352. 
No. 187. MUSTELA ALPINA. 
The Alpine Weasel. 
Hasitat.—Said to be found in Thibet, otherwise an inhabitant of the 
Altai mountains. 
DEscriPTION.—Pale yellow brown; upper lip, chin, and under- 
neath yellowish-white ; head varied with black-tipped hairs; tail 
cylindrical, unicolour, not so long as head and body.—Gray. 
No. 188. MustTELa HopGsont. 
Hasitat.—Himalaya, Afghanistan. 
DESCRIPTION.—Fur yellowish-brown, paler beneath ; upper part and 
side of head much darker; face, chin, and throat varied with white ; 
tail long, and bushy towards the end. 
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