U'ldsi/ lilt'/ s/iiir I'/' I'is Sulispecies. AM 



forim-rly associated. I kiimv of no ofluT described weasi'l 

 with wliic'li it ini^lit he coiifoimded ; it is ct'itaiiily very 

 widely tlilVerciit from P. (ilpi'mts^ Gcbler. 



') lie skull of no. 94. 9. 2. 1 i.s dama^etl, but measures 

 about 37 X 20, sliowiiif^ the specimen to liave Ijeeii about of 

 normal size. 



JiistnlntwH. I have oidy two bad and faded skins of this 

 subspecies, one of which (no. 94. 9. 2. 1) is a female (with 

 sknll) from Kokand, Ferj^^hana, collected by Th. Barey oti 

 2Uth iMarch, \^\}.\, and procured m exchanf^e from tlie 

 Branicki Museum, Warsaw; and the other (no. 79.11.21. 293) 

 is an unsexed skin from Afghanistan, from the Indian 

 Museum collection. 



(XI.) Putorius nivalis Sloliczkanus^ Blanford, J. As. S)c. 

 Bengal, xlvi. 2, j). 260 (1877). 



Mustela vulgaris, 'i var., IJlanforJ, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, xliv. 2, p. 106 

 (1875). 



The Ujpical specimen was brought by Dr. Stoliczka from 

 Yarkand, Eastern Turkestan, where it was purchase!. 



A single topol^'pe of this subspecies in the collection is 

 no. 75. 3. 30. 8, and was collected by Colonel Biddulph in 

 Yarkand on the 2(!th May, 1894. It is very faded, but 

 must have been very light in the coloration of the upperside, 

 is of small size, has the tail rather long in proportion to the 

 head and bod}' length, the line of demarcation wavy, and the 

 feet nearly white. The skull has been damaged, but is small, 

 nieasuiing not much more than 36 millim. in total length. 



In his original description Blanford states that the colour 

 of the typical specimens was pale sandy brown above, with a 

 small white spot close to the anterior angle of each eye; the 

 tail throughout the same colour as the back ; the fore feet 

 white, mixed with pale brown above ; the hind feet only 

 whitish at the edges; the soles of all the feet thickly clad, 

 oidy the toe-pa<ls being naked; the total length 306 millim.*, 

 of which the tail without the end-hairs reached o8 millim.*; 

 the length of the hind foot and tarsus without the claws 30 * ; 

 and the weight 5*2 ozs. 



[(XII.) 'i Putorius nivalis suhpalmalus, Hemprich an I 

 Ehrenberg, »Symbol. Fhys. dec. ii., at end of article on 

 //erpeates leucurus (1<S33). 



1 regret that I am unable to throw any light on the identity 



* Converted to millim. from tlie incli.'S as given by Blanford. 

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