Weasel and some of its Subspecies. 47 



Dislingiiislnng characteristics. Size larger, tail long (ratio 

 to head and body about 1 : 3) ; belly washed with yellow or 

 orange of variable intensity ; line of demarcation straight, as 

 in l\ eriniveus ; all four feet white. 



Leno-th of Breadth 

 Hind foot skull (ba- of skull 

 Head and (without sion to at 



body. Tail, claws), gnathion). zygoma. 

 No. 95. 3. 4. 2. J, Palermo, Sicily, 



9th Feb., 1895 (J. I. S. Wldtakor) 41-o 22 



No. 95. 3. 4. 3. S, Palermo, Sicily, 



26th Feb., 1895 {ditto) 240 80 38 



No. 95. 3. 4. 4. c? , Balestrate, Sicily, 



15th Feb., 1895 {ditto) ". . 230 70 38 



No. 95. 3. 4. 6. S, Marsala, Sicily, 



18th F.;b., 1895 {ditto) 250 90 40 



A single s))cciinen from Algeria (no. oCi. 3. 12. 12, from 

 Oran Prov., W. Algeria, ex coll. Parzudaki) agrees with a 

 series of nine, young and old, from Sicily, for which the 

 Museum is indebted to Mr. J. I. S. Whituker. 



Distribution. Sicily and Algiers. 



(VIII.) Putorius nivalis ofricanus, Desm. Nouv. Diet. Hist. 

 Nat. xix. p. 376 (1818) (nee Pomel, C. R. Ac. Sc. p. 654, 

 1856, and Lataste). 



Typical locality. " d'Afrique." * 



Distinguishing characteristics. Size large ; tail long (ratio 

 of lengtli to that of head and body about 1:3); belly orange ; 

 line of demarcation wavy ; feet partially white. 



Length of Breadth 

 Hind foot skull (ba- of skull 

 Head and (without sion to at 



body. Tail, claws). Ear. gnathion). zygoma. 

 No. 92. 7. 15. 7. J, Pyramids of 

 Ghizeh, Egypt {Dr. J. Anderson), 



14th March, 1892 280 90 . . . 42 



No. 92. 7. 15. 8. 2 ' Abu Iloash,W. of 



Cairo, Egypt {ditto) 270 70 . . . . 43-5 24 



Egypt, (5', in spirit (_/(fe O. 77(o«ifls). . 260 108 47 

 No. 94. 11. 26. 2. J juv., Malta (C. A. 



Wriqht), 16th April, 1894 173 62 34 16 37 23 



No. 95! 1. 2. 1. 5 , Malta, 1894 {ditto), 



(measured in dry skin) 200 85 



No. 75. 4. 6. 1. S, Malta (stuffed) {fde 



O. Thomas) 300 105 43 



It would appear from the smaller specimens that the tail 



* The species was described from a specimen at the time in the Paris 

 Museum, but which had formerly been in the Museum at Lisbon. 



