CARNIVORA. 



ERMINE WEASEL. 191 



MUSTELADJE. 



ERMINE WEASEL. 



STOAT, STOUT, GREATER WEASEL. 



Mustela erminea. (Linn.) 



Specific Character. Body reddish brown above, white beneath (in winter 

 wholly or partially white) ; extremity of the tail black. 



Mustela erminea, LINN. Fn. Suec. II. p. 6, n. 17. Syst. Nat. I. p. 68. 



DESMAR. Mammal, p. 180, sp. 277. FR. CUVIER, in 



Diet, des Sc. Nat. XXIX. p. 250. FLEM. Brit. An. 



p. 13. JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 13. 

 Viverra erminea, SHAW, Gen. Zool. I. p. 426, t. xcix. 

 Foetorius Erminea, KEYS, and BLAS. Wirbelth. Europ. pp. 69, 145. BLAS. 



Wirbelth. Deutsch. I. p. 228. 

 In the summer dress : 



Roselet, BUFFON, Hist. Nat. VII. p. 240, t. xxxi. f. 1. 

 Stoat, PENN. Brit. Zool. p. 84. 



In the winter dress : 



UHermine, BTTFFON, I. c. p. 240, t. xxix. f. 2. 

 Ermine, PENN. 1. c. p. 84. 



THE habits of the Stoat or Ermine, in this country at 

 least, differ from those of the Weasel, principally with 

 relation to the difference of size. Although much more 



