LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



Wa-thingtoiij I). C., May 0, 1896. 



SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith for publication, as No. 

 11 of North American Fauna, a Synopsis of the Weasels of North 

 America. 



Bespeetfully, C. HART MERRIAM, 



Chief of Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy. 

 Dr. CHAS. W. DABNEY, Jr., 



Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 



