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U. 8. P. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS ZOOLOGY GENERAL REPORT. 



List of specimens. 



MUSTELA AMERICANA, Turton. 



American Sable; Pine Marten. 



Mustela americanus, TURTONS Linnaeus, I, 1806, 60. 



Mustela vulpina, RAFINESQUE, Am. J. Sc. I, 1819, 82. (From Upper Mo. Specimen in N. Y. Lyceum.) 



FISCHER, Synopsis. 1829, 215. 

 Mustela levcopus, KUIIL. Beitrage, 182(1, 74. 

 FISCHER, Syn. 1829, 216. 



Mustela martes, Jos. SABINE, Zool. App. to Narr. Franklin's Journey, 1823, 651. 

 HARLAN, Fauna Americana, 1825, 67. 

 RICH, F. Bor. Am. I, 1829, 51. 

 GAPPER, Zool. Jour. V, 1830, 203. 

 GODMAN, Am. N. H. 1, 1831, 200. 



DBEAT, N. Y. Zool. I, 1842, 32 ; pi. xi. f. 2 ; pi. xix. f. 2, (skull.) 

 .' CD. & BACH. N. A. Quad. Ill, 1853, 176; pi. cxxxviii, (L. Huron.) 

 Muttela huro, F. CUT. Diet, des Sc. Nat. XXIX, 1823, 256. JB. Suppl. Buff. Mam. I, 1831, 221. 



FISCHER, Syn. 1829. 217. 

 Mustela zibellina, PALLAS, Spicil. Zool. XIV, 57-68. IB. Zool. Rosso- As. I, 1831, 84. 



GODMAN, Am. N. H. I, 1831, 208. 



Mustela zibellina, var. ommcana, Brandt Beitrage, Saugethiere Russland, 1855, 16; tab. iii, f. 10. 

 Pine Marten, PENNANT, Hist. Quad. 1781, No. 200. IB. Arctic Zool. I, 1784, 76. (From sp. in Loverian Mus.) 



Sp. CH Legs and tail blackish. General color reddish yellow, clouded with black; above becoming lighter towards the 

 head, which is sometimes white. A broad yellowish patch on the throat, widening below so as to touch the legs. Central line 

 of belly sometimes yellowish. Tail vertebrse, about , the head and body. Outstretched hind feet reach about to the middle of 

 the tail with the hairs. Feet densely furred. 



Body stouter than in the ermine weasels, though less bulky than in H. pennantii. Head 

 somewhat depressed, acute, and broader than might he looked for with t;o lengthened a skull. 

 The ears are large and thickened ; both sides densely coated with short velvety hairs, overlaid 

 by stiff longer ones, which do not extend to the margins of the ears. The vertebras of the tail 

 are about half as long as the body, exclusive of the head ; the entire tail nearly two-thirds the 

 length of head and body. The outstretched hind feet reach but little more than half way to the 

 tip of the tail. The legs are rather short and robust ; the feet densely coated with fur ; the 



