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Garrure, 
27. Prne, 
Martin. 
Si RT) Eee eto oe Fi 
Length, from nofe to tail, ten inches ; the tail is five and’a half. 
Inhabits only Hudson's Bay, Canada, and the northern parts. of: 
North America. In Newfoundland it is fo bold:as.to.commit its thefts: 
in open view. Feeds on eggs, the young of birds, and on the mice- 
with which thofe countries abound, They alfo prey on Rabbits,.andi © 
the White Grous. The {kins are exported from Cazada among what: 
the French call la menué pelleterie, or fmalhfurs *. 
It 1s found again in plenty in Kamt/chatka +, the: Kurili iflands, Si-- 
diria, and in all the northern extremities of Europe. It is fearce in 
Kamtf{chatka ; and.its chafé is not attended. to,, amidft the quantity of 
fuperior furs, But in Sibiria and. Norway they. are-a_confiderable ar-. 
ticle of commerce, In the former, they are taken in traps, baited. 
with a bit of flefh:{; in the latter, either fhot with blunt arrows, or 
taken, as garden mice are in England, by-a flat ftone propped. by a 
baited ftick, which falls down on the left touch, and crufhes them to 
death §.. “Ehey are found in Sidiria-in.great plenty in woods of birch, 
yet are never fcen in thofe of fir. Their fkins are fold there on the 
fpot from-two to three pounds fterling per hundred |. , 
They are not found on the 4réic flats. The inhabitants. of the 
L/chukt/{chi No/s get them in, exchange from.the Americans, where they 
are of a larger fize than any in the Rafiaz dominions, 
The exceflive cold of certain winters has. obliged even thefe hardy, 
' animals to migrate, as was evident in the year 1730, and. 1744 4. 
Hift. Quad. N° 200.—Br. Zool. i, N° 16,—Siellie, iv. 245.—Liev. Muse. 
EESEL... With white cheeks and tips of ears; yellow throat: 
and breaft; reft of the fur of a fine deep chefnut-color in 
the male, paler in the female: tail bufhy, and of a- deeper color than. 
the body. 
* Charlevoix, Ve 197% + Hip. Kamtfchatha; 99. } Bell's travels, i. 199¢ 
§ Pontoppidany, ii. 25. Gmelin Ruf Samlung, 516. q Now. Sp. an. 188. 
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