ERMINE WEASEL. 



CARNIVOIiA. 



191 

 MUSTELADJS. 



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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. C, n. 17. — Syst. Nat. I. p. 08. 



Desmar. Mammal, p. ISO, sp. 277. Fr. CuviKit, in 



Diet, des Sc. Nat. XXIX. p. 250. Flkji. ]5rit. 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. GO, 14.'j. Blas. 



Wirbelth. Deutsch. I. p. 228. 

 In the summer dress : — 

 Roselet, Buffon, Hist. Nat. VIT. p. 240, t. xxxi. f. 1. 

 Stoat, Penn. Brit. Zool. p. 84. 



In the winter dress : — 

 JJ Ilcrmine, Buffon, 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 \\\\.\\ 

 relation to the difference of size. Althou<ih imicli more 



