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THEY HAVE MANY CHANGES OF DRE«S. 



1 do not believe there are any White Weasels in summer, but I 

 do know that they are dark brown, light brown, dark red and 

 light red in winter and that I have caught them every week 

 from December 1 until April 1. I caught a dark brown, a dark 

 red and a pure white all in one night, but at different places. 

 1 never caught a "maltee" Weasel in winter, but have caught 

 many of them in summer. 



The "Maltee" Weasel is very fine furred, no long, coarse hair, 

 and have a blue shade in ttie fur. Now this Weasel changes its 

 coat in November. 



1 burned two hundred Weasel skins last winter as the moths 

 had gotten in them. I could have sent them to you had I 

 thought you cared for them. I had a card on each one saying 

 when and where I caught it. 



DESTROYS GREAT NtTMBERS OF YOUNG GROUSE. 



The Weasel is very hard on Grouse until the birds are six 

 weeks old and able to fly. He will follow them and some- 

 times kill the whole brood. I found thirteen out of fourteen 

 killed by a Weasel the very day they came out of the shell 

 and the fourteenth would have been killed, but I heard the 

 old Pheasant making a great noise and I killed the Weasel. 

 The birds were too young to hide under the leaves, the four- 

 teenth bird was sitting beside the nest. I never saw where the 

 Weasel killed any old Pheasants, but saw where a Pheasant 

 carried a Weasel away out of a hole in the snow where 

 the Pheasant was sitting, when the Weasel came in and at- 

 tacked it. 



KILL ALL THE QUAIL. 



The Weasel will kill all the Quail in February and March if 

 the snow is deep. The birds will go under windfalls and 

 brush heaps covered with snow. The Weasel will track and 

 go in after them at night, killing every one; then the farmers 

 will find them in the spring and think they were frozen. I 

 found west of White Haven one day (I was after a Catamount), 

 where a Weasel had killed over one hundred birds. I pulled 

 out with a stick fourteen of the dead birds; no marks on them, 

 but track of teeth on neck near the head. 



A Weasel will follow a Rabbit on bare groun^' the same as 

 a well-trained dog. I put one off the trail several times In 



