Least Weasel; Florida Weasel 
total length. Dark brown above, tail tipped with black, belly 
and under parts white tinged with yellow. Pure white in 
winter with a yellow tinge on the rump, and tail black 
tipped. 
Rega Boreal forests south to New England and the mountains 
of Pennsylvania. A larger variety, Richardson’s weasel P. 
cicognant richardsoni (Bonaparte), occurs in Northern British 
America. 
This smaller, short-tailed weasel is an animal of the boreal 
forests, overlapping in parts of its range one or other of the pre- 
ceding long-tailed species, from which it probably differs little in 
habits. 
Least Weasel 
Putorius rixosus Bangs 
Length. 6 inches. 
Description. Smallest of the weasels, with no black tip to the 
tail, which is very short. Colour, dark reddish brown above, 
white below. In winter pure white throughout. 
Range. Arctic America, south to Northern Minnesota, replaced on 
the Artic coast of Alaska by the Eskimo weasel P. rixosus 
eskimo Stone. In Western Pennsylvania occurs another little 
weasel, allied to the least weasel, the Alleghany weasel P. 
alleghaniensis Rhoads. 
Florida Weasel 
Putorius peninsule Rhoads 
Length. 15 inches. 
Description. Never turns white in winter. Chocolate brown, 
darker on the head, chin whitish, rest of under parts yellow- 
ish, irregular spots of white sometimes present on the face, 
between and behind the eyes. 
Range. Peninsula of Florida. The allied bridled weasel P. 
frenatus (Lichtenstine), with distinct white marks on the face, 
occurs in Texas. 
This is a distinctly Southern weasel, our other Eastern weasels 
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