November 



it Fiverra Putorius. * This animal, which is 

 very fimilar to the Marten, is of about the fame 

 fize, and commonly black : on the back it has 

 a longitudinal white ftripe, and two others on 

 each fide, parallel to the former. Sometimes, 

 but very feldom, fome are feen which are quite 

 white. On our return to Philadelphia, we faw 

 one of thefe animals not far from town, near a 

 farmer's houfe, killed by dogs. And afterwards 

 I had, during my flay in thefe parts, feveral op- 

 portunities of feeing it, and of hearing its qua- 

 lities. It keeps its young ones in holes in the 

 ground, and in hollow trees ; for it does not con- 

 fine itfelf to the ground, but climbs up trees 

 with the greateft agility : it is a great enemy to 

 birds, for it breaks their eggs, and devours their 

 young ones ; and if it can get into a hen-rooft, it 

 foon deflroys all its inhabitants. 



THIS animal has a particular quality by which 

 it is principally known : when it is purfued by 

 men or dogs, it runs at firfl as faft as it can, or 

 climbs upon a tree ; but if it is fo befet by its 

 purfuers, as to have no other way of making its 

 efcape, it fquirts its urine upon them. This, 

 according to fome, it does by wetting its tail 

 with the urine, whence, by a fudden motion, it 

 fcatters it abroad; but others believe, that it 

 could fend its urine equally far without the help 

 of its tail j I find the former of thefe accounts to 

 be the moft likely. For fome credible people 



OF this animal, and of the above-mentioned Racoon, is a re- 

 sntation given plai 

 nan and the Swedifi 

 without this plate, F, 



prefentation given plate 2, both from original drawings ; 

 -andthe Swedijk edition of Prof. Kalm\ woik being both 



aflured 



