220 AUDUBON THE NATURALIST. 



by Charles P. Chouteau, Esq., with a mink skin 

 of a beautiful silver-gray colour, the fur of which 

 is quite different from the ordinary coat of the 

 animal. These beautiful skins are exceedingly 

 rare, and six of them, when they are united, 

 will make a muff, worth at least a hundred dol- 

 lars. A skin, slightly approaching the fine 

 quality and colour of the one just mentioned, 

 exists in the Academy of Natural Sciences at 

 Philadelphia, but it is brownish, and the fur is 

 not very good. 



