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est species, only 7 or 8" long, tail very short, 2"; red-brown above, or light 

 ruddy, tail of the colour of back, the under side white ; only in the far north 

 has this species also a white winter-coat as the rule. Mustela Barbara L., 

 Gulo canescens ILLIG., BUFF. Suppl. vn. PL 60, SCHBEB. Sdugth. Tab. 143 B ; 

 Surinam, Brasil (WiEGMANN refers this species to the sub-genus Gcdictis 

 BELL). In a species from the East and North of Europe the toes are 

 connected at the base by a hairy fold of skin, especially the two middle, 

 longer toes : Mustela, lutreola L., PALL. Spic. Zool. XI. I ; red-brown, the 

 tail dark brown, the chin white. 



/S) With false molars -. (Sub-genus Mustela Cuv.) p. . 



Sp. Mustela canadensis ERXL., GM., BUFF. xni. PI. 42, GUEBIN Iconogr., 

 Mamm. PI. 15, fig. i ; the pekan, a large brown species, with long black 

 tail; dispersed over a great part of North America. Mustela Maries L., 

 Mustela abietum RAT, BUFF. vn. PI. 11 dark red or brown, feet black, 

 the throat yellow ; in many countries of Europe and temperate Asia, &c. 



Galictis BELL. Molar teeth - - , false ^ ^ (as in the Polecats). 



O O o 



Feet subplantigrade, with palms and soles naked. Body depressed, 

 elongate. Tail moderate, villous, subdistichous. 



Sp. Mustela vittata, Viverra vittata SCHBEB., GM., Gulo mttatus DESM., BUFF. 

 Suppl. in. PI. 23, Galictis vittata BELL, Trans, of the Zool. Soc. n. Part 3, 

 1839, pp. 201 208, PI. 35; yellowish-grey above, under side and legs 

 black; Guiana, Brasil. Mustela Allemandi, Galictis Allemandi BELL 1. 1. 

 PL 37 (BUFF. Suppl. in. PL 25, cop. in SCHREBEB Sdugth. Tab. 124? 

 Description and figure of ALLEMAND from a specimen not adult) ; larger, 

 brown, black below, a greyish- white strip from the eyes over the ears; 

 Chili. 



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Mephitis Cuv. (Spec, of Viverra L., GM.). Molar teeth ^ ^ , 



more rarely three above on each side; laniary tooth very large; 

 upper tuberculate large, with crown square or transverse. Ears 

 short, rounded. Snout somewhat prominent or proboscidean. Feet 

 pentadactylous, short, almost plantigrade, with claws of fore feet 

 large, fossorial. Body elongate. Tail moderate or somewhat long, 

 with long hair. (Dental formula as in Putorius.} 



Compare H. LICHTENSTEIN Ueber die Gattung Mephitis, Eine aTcade- 

 mische Abhandlung (Ale. der Wissensch. zu Berlin, Physik. Kl. 1836), 

 1838, 4to. 



Rhdbdogale WIEGM., WAGN. Molar teeth ^ - . Upper laniary 

 tooth with accessory tubercle internal, anterior. 



Sp. Mephitis mustelina, Rhabdogale mustelina WAGN., Mustela zorilla DESM., 

 Mephitis africana LICHTENSTEIN, SOHBEB. Sdugth. Tab. 133 A, GUB. 





