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The Common Polecat (Mustela putorius) is brown, with yellowish flanks, and 

 white spots on the head ; it is fifteen to eighteen inches in length, exclusive of the tail, 

 which is six inches long. It takes up its abode in the thatch of barns and other unfre- 

 quented places, from which it sallies forth at night in search of prey ; it glides into poultry- 

 yards and mounts into dove-cotes, where, without making much noise, it commits sad 



