430 SARMATIAN WEESEL. 



the fur is veiy soft and glossy : the toes covered 

 with thick .hair both above and below. Native 

 of North America. This species, as figured by 

 Schreber, has extremely the appearance of one of 

 the Otter tribe. 



SARMATIAN WEESEL. 



Viverra Sarmatica. 



Mustela Sarmatica. M. corpore supra ex luteo fuscoque tana. 

 Lin. Syst. GmeL p. 97. 



W. variegated on the upper parts with brown and yellow. 



M. peregusina, pedibus fissis, capite et corpore subtus aterrimis, 

 corpore supra brunneo luteoque vario, ore fascia frontali auri- 

 culisque albis. Guldenstedt nov. comm. petrop. 14. p. 441, 



445- * I0 - 

 Mustela praecincta et Perewiaska. Rzaczynski hist. not. Pol. 



p. 328 and 222. 

 Vormela (germanice Wormlein). Gesn. Quadr. p. 768. 



THE Sarmatian Weesel measures about four- 

 teen inches to the tail, and the tail six inches. 

 The head, feet, and under sides of the body, are 

 black, the upper parts brown, variegated with ir- 

 regular spots or patches of tawny yellow: the 

 mouth is surrounded with white; the face is 

 crossed by a white band beyond the eyes, passing 

 beneath the ears on each side down to the throat : 

 another white band crosses the back part of the 

 head, and runs down on each side over the 

 shoulders ; and the upper part of the neck is va- 

 ried with yellow : the tail is black, but intermixed 

 with white and fulvous hairs. This species inha- 



