104 CATALOGUE. 



B. H. Hodgson, who discovered this animal in Nepal, gives the 

 following description of it in the sixth volume of the Journal of the As. 

 Soc. Beng. Part II. p. 563-4 : " Eleven and half to twelve inches long 

 from snout to base of tail ; tail five and half inches or six and half, with 

 the terminal hair ; uniform bright brown, darker along the dorsal line ; 

 nose, upper lip, and forehead, with two inches of the end of the tail, 

 black-brown ; mere edge of upper lip, and whole lower jaw, hoary. A 

 short longitudinal white stripe, occasionally, on the front of the neck, 

 and some vague spots of the same laterally, the signs, I suspect, of 

 immaturity. Feet frequently darker than the body, or dusky brown ; 

 whiskers dark. Fur close, glossy, and soft ; of two sorts, or fine hair 

 and soft wool : the latter, and the hair basally, of dusky hue, but the 

 hair externally bright brown. Head, ears, and limbs more closely clad 

 than the body ; tail more laxly, and tapering to the point." 



123. MUST EL A ALP IN A, Gebler, Sp. 



Putorius alpinus, Gebler, Mem. de la Soc. Imp. de Moscow, 



VI. p. 215. 



Mustek alpina, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 220. Gray, Cat. 

 Mamm. B. Mus. p. 67. Schiuz, Syn. Mamm. p. 341. 

 Mustela altaica, Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. I. 98. 

 Putorius alpinus, Griff. Anim. Kingd. V. 340-2. 

 HAB. The Altai Mountains, Gebler, Pallas, Tibet, Capt. 

 Btrachey. 

 A. From Capt. Strachey's Collection. 



General colour sulphureous ; brownish above, yellowish underneath ; 

 chin white. Length of the head and body, nine, and of the tail, five 

 inches. 



124. MUSTELA ERMINE A, Linn. 8yst. Nat. 12, 1. p. 68, 

 ed. Gmel I. p. 98. 



Mustela erminea, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 222. Desmar. 

 Mamm. /?. 180. Bell, British Quadrupeds, p. 148. 

 Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. Mus. p. 65. Cat. Hodgs. 

 Collec.p. 13. Hodgson, Classif. Cat. of Nepal Mam- 

 malia, J. A. S. B. X. 909. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. 

 IV. p. 287. Notice of Tibet, Mamm. J. A. S. B. XI. 

 p. 280; VI. p. 9,564. 



Viverra erminea, Shaw, Gen. Zool. I. Part II. p. 426. 



Stoat and Ermine, Pennant, Quadr.II.p. 35. Shaw, Gen. 

 Zool. I. Part II. p. 426. Bell, Br. Quadr. p. 148. 



