44H MUSTELA. PUTORIUS. 



776. Mustela melampus Temmmck. 



Mustela nielampus Temm., Faun. Japon., 1842, p. 31, pi. vii, figs. 



3-4- 

 Maries melanopus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 105. 

 Japanese Marten. 



I. Adult — P. Japan. Ward's Nat. Scien. Establ., Rochester, 

 N. Y. 



(ienus 222. Piitoriii.s. Mink, \\ easel.s. 



Putorius Frisch, Das Nat.-Syst. vierfiiss. Thiere, inTabellen, xi,Tab. 



Gen., 1775. Type Mustela putorius Linnaeus. 

 Arctogale Kaup, Entw.-Gesch. Nat. Syst. der Europ. Thierw., i, 



1829, p. 30. (nee Peters.) 

 Ictis Kaup, Entw.-Gesch. Nat. Syst. der Europ. Thierw., i, 1829, 



p. 40. 

 Gale Wagn., Schreb. Saugth., Suppl., 11, 1841, p. 234. 

 Lutreola Wagn., Schreb. Saugth., Suppl., 11, 1841, p. 239. 

 Vison Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 1843, p. 64. 

 Neogala Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1865, p. 114. 

 Cynomyonax (sic) Coues, Fur-bear. Anim., 1877, p. 147. 



Subgenus A. Lutreola. Mink. 



777. Putorius vison (Schreber). 



Mustela lutreola Forst.. Phil. Trans., lxii, 1772, p. 371. (nee 



Linn.) 

 Mustela vison Schreb., Saugth., in, 1777, p. 463. 

 Mustela canadensis Erxl., Syst. Regn. Anim., i, 1777, p. 455. (nee 



M. I. canadensis Schreber, 1777.) 

 Mustela winingus Barton, Am. Phil. Trans., vi, 1809, p. 70. 

 Mustela minx Ord, Guth. Geog., 2d Amer. ed., 11, 1815, p. 291. 

 Mustela lutreocephala Harl., Faun. Amer., 1825, p. 63. 

 Putorius nigrescens Aud. & Bach., Quad. N. Amer.. iii, 1S53, p. 



104, pi. cxxiv. 

 Putorius vison Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 1901. 



p. 338, fig. 67. Zool. Ser. Id. Check-L. Mamm. N. Amer. 



Cont. & W. Indies, F. C. M. Pub., vi, 1905. p. 423. Zool. 



Ser. 

 Putorius vison lutreocephalus Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm.. F. C. M. 



Pub., II, 1901. p. 339. Zool. Ser. 



