Wie B se Et SR igi. 
HIST, QUAD. Genus XXIII. 
Hiff. Quad, N° 192.—Smellie, iv. 257.—Luv. Mus. 
EESEL. With fmall rounded ears: beneath each corner of 
the mouth is a white fpot: breaft and belly white; reft of the 
body of a pale tawny brown. Its length, from the tip of the nofe to 
the tail, is about feven inches; the tail two and a half. 
Inhabits the country about Hud/on’s Bay, Newfoundland, and as far 
fouth as Carolina*. Mr. Graham fent fome over, both in their fum- 
mer coat, and others almoft entirely white, the color they affume in 
winter. We meet with them again in Kamt/chatka, and all over 
Ruffia and Sidiria ; and in thofe northern regions they regularly turn 
white during winter. One, which was brought from Natka Sound 
‘in North America, had between the ears and nofe a bed of glofly 
black, which probably was its univerfal color before its change. Dr. 
Irving faw on Moffen ifland, north of Spitzbergen, lat. 80. an animal, 
perhaps of this kind, fpotted black and white +. 
Hift, Quad. N° 193.—Smellie, iv. 262.—Lev. Mus. 
EESEL. With fhort ears, edged with white: head, back, 
fides, and legs, of a pale tawny brown: under fide of the 
body white: lower part of the tail brown, the end black. 
In northern countries, changes in winter to a fnowy whitenefs, the 
end of the tail excepted, which retains its black color: in this ftate 
is called an Ermine. 
* Catefoy, App. t Phipps’s voy. 58. 
Le Length, 
75 
WEESEL. 
25. Common. 
PLace. 
26. STOAT. 
