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OARNIVORA. 



MUSTELAD/E. 



MUSTELAD^K. 



Genus, Mustela. 



WEASEL. 



Generic Character. Body elongated, vermiform; feet short; toes sepa- 

 rate ; claws sharp ; ears small ; grinding teeth |:| ; tongue rough. 



COMMON WEASEL. 



Mustela vulgar is. 



< Specific Character. Reddish brown above, white beneath ; tail of the 

 same colour as the upper part of the body. 



Mustela vulgaris, LINN. Syst. Nat. DESMAR. Mam. p. 179, sp. 275. FLEM. 



Brit. An. p. 13. JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 12. 

 Viverra vulgaris, SHAW, Gen. Zool. I. 2, p. 240. 

 Foetorius mdg am, KEYS, and BLAS. Wirbelth. Europ. p. 69, n. 147. BLAS. 



Saugth. Deutsch. p. 231. 



La Belette, BUFFON, Hist. Nat. VII. p. 225, t. xxix. f. 1. 



Common Weasel, PENNANT, Brit. Zool. I. p. 95, t. vii. No. 17. SHAW, Gen. 



Zool. I. p. 420, t. xcviii. 

 With the fur white. 

 Mustela nivalis, LINN. Fn. Suec. II. p. 7. Syst. Nat. I. p. 69. MULL. 



Zool. Prod. p. 3. 



