S8 FERflL THE WEESEL TRIBE. 



Maries sihestris. Gesner, p. 99. Ruysch, i. pa. 1, 

 p. JOS. 



Maries abietum. Raii, Syn. quadr. p. 200. 



Vixerra Maries. Shaw's Gen. Zool. i. p. 410. 



La Marie. Buff. Sonn. xxv. p. 99, tab. 1, fig. 1. 

 Cuv. Tab. Element, p. 115. 



Pine Martin. Penn. Quadr. ii. p. 42. Perm. Brit. 

 Zoo\. i. p. 94. Shaw's Gen. Zool. i. p. 410. Bing. 

 Anim. Biog. 3d edit. i. p. 332. 



Pine Weasel, or yellow-breasted Martin. Smeliie's 

 Buffon, iv. p. 245, tab. 73. 



14. THE POLECAT. Viverra putorius. Body blackish 

 yellow, or chocolate; muzzle and ears white. Vvcerra 

 putorius. Shaw. 



Length, to the origin of the tail, 1 7 inches ; and of the tail 6 inches. 

 Muzzle sharpened. Legs short : toes long, each furnished with a 

 tolerably sharp claw. Tail covered with longish hair, but not, (as 

 in the two preceding species,) particularly bushy towards the end. 



Ears short, rounded, and tipped with white. The space round 

 the muzzle is also whitish ; but darker in the female than the male, 

 and has a yellowish tinge. Head, throat) breast, legs, and thighs of a 

 deep chocolate colour, almost black. W. B. 



Too common in most parts, both of Great Britain and Ireland. 



Mustela pedibusfasis, corpore Jlavo nigricante, ore auri- 

 culisque albes. Mustela putorius. Linn. Syst. Nat. 

 Gmel. i. p. 76. 



Mustela Jtavo-nigricans, auricularum que apicibus al- 

 bis. Mustela putorius. Erxleben, Syst. regn. animal, 

 gen. 42, sp. 7, p. 463. 



Mustela putorius. Polecat, Turton, i. p. 60. Kerr, 

 p. 179. 



Mustela 



