220 TEN YEAK3 IN SWEDEN. 



February, and bring forth two to three young in the end 

 of April. 



26. MAETES SYLVESTEIS, Gesn. Skogs Hard. The Pine 



Marten. D. F. 



Body chestnut brown, with black-brown legs and 

 bushy tail; the soles of the feet covered with hair; 

 the throat and breast are yellow, and the breast spot 

 terminates below in a single point. 



I can prove by a young specimen killed in August, 

 probably four months old, that the breast of the pine marten 

 is yellow in the young as well as the old. Much commoner 

 than the last, and is found in most of the old forests from 

 Scania into Lapland. 



(d). Upper tuberculated tooth broad; prasmolars, f. 



Gen. Lutra. 



Head broad and flattened, with short blunt nose, small 

 eyes and ears; legs short; toes webbed; tail long; hori- 

 zontally flattened. 



27. LUTEA VULGAEIS, Erxl. "Utter. The Otter. D. F. 



Colour dark brown ; sides of the head, throat, and 



chest, pale grey ; tail longer than half the body ; soles 



of feet naked. Length 2 ft. 8 in. ; tail 1 ft. 4 in. 



Common throughout all Scandinavia, for I have shot 



them in Scania as well as in Lulea Lapland. The breeding 



season here certainly takes place in February or early in 



March, and the female brings forth in May, from three to four 



blind young ones. As I have been told from very reliable 



authority, that the otter in England breeds in the winter,! have 



made very particular inquiries here of men who well know the 



habits of the otter, and all corroborate the above statement. 



(e) . Upper tuberculated tooth, three times as large as the 

 canine teeth ; prsemolars, f . 



Gen. MeleSj Gesn. 



Head long ; nose pointed ; small eyes and short legs ; 

 body flattened on the top ; two anal openings. 



