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tail, and comparatively stout limbs. The fur is thick and soft; the 

 color varies from blackish, mixed with gray and brown, to yellowish 

 brown; throat sometimes orange. Head and body, about 20 inches; 

 tail, about 7 inches. 



The former range of the species included the forested regions 

 from northern Russia east to the Anadyr district, Siberia; it ex- 

 tended south to the southern Urals, the Altai and Sayan Mountains, 

 Manchuria, the Ussuri district, Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Kamchatka. 



The following subspecies have been recognized (cj. Ognev, 1925, 

 and 1931, pp. 560-598) , but the ranges so far assigned to them do 

 not cover the entire range of the species: 



Martes zibellina zibellina (Linnaeus). (Original reference and 

 type locality given above.) Tobolsk Sable. 



Color dull and pale, varying from cinnamon-drab to pale brownish 

 yellow and even to dark brown; underfur light and dull. 



Range: the Ob Basin and the Ural region. 



M. z. yeniseensis Ognev, Jour. Mammalogy, vol. 6, p. 277, pi. 26, 

 fig. 3, 1925. ("Krasnoyarsk district, the forest on the plain along 

 the Yenisei River," Siberia.) Yenisei Sable. 



Color more dusky warm brown in comparison with the Tobolsk 

 Sable. 



Range: the great forests of the districts of Krasnojarsk, Ashinsk, 

 and Kansk, in the Yenisei Basin. 



M. z. sajanensis Ognev, Jour. Mammalogy, vol. 6, p. 278, 1925. 

 ("Orsyba River, northern part of the Sajansky Mountains," Siberia.) 

 Sayan Sable. 



General color dark brown; underfur pale yellowish. 



Range: "the mountain country of the rivers Uda, Kasyr and 

 especially of the Kasyr-Suk and partly of the Usa." 



M . z. princeps (Birula) . (Mustela zibellina princeps Birula, Ann. 

 Mus. Zool. Acad. Imper. Sci. Petrograd, vol. 22, p. 08, 1922; the 

 mountain country of Bargusin, Transbaikalia, Siberia.) Bargusin 

 Sable. 



Fur soft and silky; color a brilliant blackish brown; underfur 

 bluish gray, brownish at bases and tips; throat patch much reduced, 

 commonly not visible. 



Range: mountain forests, Bargusin Hills and spurs of the Stano- 

 voi Mountains, Transbaikalia. 



M. z. kamtschadalica (Birula). (Mustela zibellina subsp. kamt- 

 schadalica Birula, C. R. Mus. Zool. Acad. Sci. Petrograd 1918, 

 p. 82 (fide Ognev) ; Kamchatka.) Kamchatka Sable. 



General color between warm sepia and mars brown; underfur 

 pale yellowish gray ; skull large. 



Range: Kamchatka. 



M. z. sahalinensis Ognev, Jour. Mammalogy, vol. 6, p. 279, pi. 26, 

 fig. 4, 1925. ("Saghalien, Wedernikovo.") Sakhalin Sable. 



