344 mammalia: fee^. — Liii. 



602. MUSTELA LiniiEeus. (Lat., weasel.) 



1135. M. amerioana Kerr. Sable. Pine Makten. Brown, 

 not darker below than above, usually a tawny throat-pateh. Ears 

 high, sub-triangular. L. 24. T. 8. Penn. to S. Labrador and W. 



1136. M. peunantii Erxleben. Pekan. Fisher. Blackish, 

 paler anteriorly, darkest below ; no throat-patch ; ears low, serai- 

 circular. L. 35. T. 14. Penn. to Hudson's Bay, and W. (To 

 Thomas Pennant, author of Arctic Zoology.) 



603. LUTREOLA Wagner. (Dim. of luira, otter.) 



1137. L. vison (Schreber). Mink. Dark chestnut-brown, uni- 

 form or varied with whitish below. L. 22. T. 8. N. Am. ; com- 

 mon, aquatic. (Lat., scout.) Subspec. lutreooephala (Harlan), the 

 big brown mink, occurs along the coast from New England, S. 

 L. 25. T. 8|. 



604. PUTORITJS Cuvier. • (putor, bad odor.) 



a. Species of small size (length to base of tail less than 12) ; body attenuate ; 

 neck long; ears conspicuous, orbicular; tail slender; toes cleft; pads on 

 feet separate ; coloration bicolor, reddish brown, yellowish or white be- 

 low, the fur usually becoming snow-white in winter. (Arctogale Kaup.) 

 i. Large, tail long. 



1138. P. longicauda (Bonaparte). Long-tailed Weasel. 

 Belly tawny or salmon-yellow ; black tip of tail reduced to a ter- 

 minal pencil; tail long. L. 16^. T. 6. Minn, to Kas. and N. 

 Subspec, spadix Bangs. Much darker. Minn. (Lat., date-brown.) 



1139. P. noveboracensis Emmons. Weasel. Ermine. 

 Stoat. Belly sulphur-yellow; black of tail not confined to tip; 

 fur snow-white in winter only in N. L. 11. T. 3. Me. to N. C. 

 and W. to 111., common N. Allied to the European Ermine, 

 P. ermineus (L.). (Lat. of New York.) 



bb. Small, tail short. 



1140. P. cicognani (Bonaparte). Small Brown Weasel. 

 Mahogany-brown, white, rarely yellowish below; white in winter. 

 L. 10. T. 2. Northern regions, S. to Long Island. 



Family CCIL CANID^. (The Dogs.) 

 Digitigrade Carnivora with blunt, non-retractile claws ; toes 6-4. 

 Muzzle more or less elongated. Dentition typically i. Irl ; c. \z\ ; 

 pm. \'.\; m. f:f = 42; canines large, rather blunt. Genera and 

 species widely distributed, all of them more or less dog-like or fox- 

 like in habit. 



aa. Pupil elliptical; tail long and bushy; upper incisors scarcely lobed; body 

 rather slender. 

 b. Tail with soft fur and long hair; muzzle long. . . . Vulpes, 605. 



