MAMMALS— MUSTELINE— GULO LUSCUS. 



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Provo, some ducks, allowed to remain in the water where they fell, in a short 



time were mutilated to such an extent by minks as to be useless for taxi- 



dermic purposes. 



MUSTELA AMERICANA, Turton. 



American §aMe. 



Mustela martes, Forst., Phil. Trans., Ixii, 1772, 342; and of many American writers. 



Mustela americana, Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1800, 00. — Be, M. N. A., 1S57, 152. — Newb.. 

 P. P. P. Pep., vi, 1857, 41.— Kxeeland, Pr. Post. Soc, vi, 1S58, 41S.— 

 Coop. & Suckl., N. H. Wash. Terr., 1800, 92.— Poss, Canada Nat. & Geol., 

 vi, 1801, 25. — Gilpin, Tr. Nova Scotia Acad., ii, 1S70, 10, 59. — Ames, Bull. 

 Minn. Acad., 1874, 09. 



Maries americana, Gray, P. Z. S., 1805, 100 (with vara, abietinoides, huro, and leucopus). 



Mustela zibellina var. americana, Brandt, Beit. Saug. Russl., 1855, 10, pi. 3, f. 10. 



Mustela zibellina, Gomi., Am. Nat. Hist., i, 1831, 208. 



Mustela rulpiua, Paf., Am. Jour. Sc, i, 1S19, 82. 



Mustela leucopus, Kuhl, Beit., 1820, 74. 



Martes leucqpus, Gray, List Mamm. Br. Mus., 1843, 03. 



Mustela huro, Fr. Cuy., Diet. Sc. Nat., xxix, 1823, 250. 



Mustela leucotis, Griff., An. Kiugd., v, 1827, 120. 



Mustela martinus, AMES, Bull. Minn. Acad., 1874, 09. 



Specimen. 



No. 



Name. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Remarks. 



39S 





Taos, N. Mex 



Aug., 1S74 



Dr. H. C. Yarrow. Skin. 









Particularly interesting on account of the locality, which is the southern- 

 most on record thus far for the species. 



GULO LUSCUS, (L.) Sab. 

 Wolverene. 



Ursus freti-hudsonis, Briss., Quad., 1705, 200. 



Ursus luscus, L., S. N., i, 1700, 71. 



Meles luscus, Bodd., Elench. Anim., i, 1784, SO. 



Gulo luscus, J. Sabine, Frankl. Jour... 1823, 050.— E. Sabine, App. Parry's 1st Voy., 

 1824, clxxxiv.— PiCH., App. Parry's 2d Voy., 1825, 292.— Picn., F. B. A., i, 

 1829, 41.— DeKay, N. Y. Zoijl., i, 1842, 27.— Aud. & BACFL, Quad. N. A., 

 i, 1849, 203, pi. 20.— Tuomps., Vermont, 1853, 30.— Be, Stausbury's Pep., 

 1852, 311.— Bd., Mamm. N. A., 1857, 181.— Maxim., Verz. N. A. Saug., 1802, 

 35.— Coues, Am. Nat,, i, 1807, 352.— Allen, Bull. M. C. Z., i, 1809, 177. 

 Id., Bull. Essex, Inst., vi, 1874, 54.— Trippe, apud Coues's Birds of the 

 Northwest, 1874. 224 (in text). 



Gulo arcticus var. A., Desm., Mam., i, 1820, 174. 



Gulo wolverene, Griff., An. King., v, 1827, 117. 



