172 



1777, 471, No. 12.— Schreb., Saugt., iii 1778— G^m., S. N., i, 1788, 

 99.— Desm., Mamm., i, 1820, 179, No. 275.— Fr. Cuv., Diet. Sci. 

 Nat., xxix, 1823, 251, No. 7.— Is. Geoff., Diet. Class., x, 213.— 

 Less., Man., 1827, 146.- Fisch., Syn., 1829, 223.— Flem., Br. An., 

 1828, 13.— Jen., Br. Vert., 1835, 12.— Bell, Br. Quad., 1837, 141. 

 Gray, List Mamm. Br. Mus., 1843, 65.— Gieb., Saugt., 1855, 782. 

 Farwick, Zool. Gart., xiv, 1873, 17 (albino).— Harlan, Faun. 

 Amer., i, 1825, 61.— Maxim., Reise, ii, 1841, 98.— Thomps., Nat. 

 Hist. Vermont, 1853, 30.— Hall, Canadian Nat. and GeoL, vi, 

 1861, 295.— Kirtland, Ohio Geolog. Survey, 1838, 160, 176. 



1761. Mustela nivalis, Linn., Fn. Suec., 2d ed., 1761, 7, No. 18; S. N., i, 

 1766, 69, No. 11.— MiiU., Zool. Prod., 1776, 3, No. 15 — Erxl., Syst. 

 Anim., 1777, 476, No. 14.— Schreb., Saugt., iii, 1778, pi. 138.— 

 Less., Man., 1827, 146.— Forst., Phil. Tr., Ixii, 1772, 373. 



1788. Mustela vulgaris, a. asstiva, b. nivalis, Gm., S. N., i, 1788, 99, Nos. 11 

 a, lib. 



1800. Viverra vulgaris, Shaw, G. Z.,' i, l&OO, 420, pl. 98. 



1827. Putorius vulgaris, Griflf., An. Kingd., v, 1827, 121, No. 344.— Brandt, 

 Wirb. Eur. N. E. Russl., —,26.— Emm., Rep. Quad. Mass., 1840, 

 44.— AIL, Proe. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xiii, 1869, 183; Bull. M. C. 

 Z., i, 1870, 167.— Jordan, Man. Vert., 1878, 18. 



1829. Mustela (Putorius) vulgaris. Rich., P. B. A., i, 1829, 45. 



1831. MusUla gale. Pall., Zoog. R. A., i, 1831, 94, No. 32. 



1840. Fcetorius vulgaris. Keys. & Bias., Wirb. Eur., 1840, 69, No. 147. 



1842. Mustela pusilla, DeKay, N. Y. Zool., i, 1842, 34, pl. 14, f. 1. 



1851. Putorius pusillus, Aud. & Bach , Q. N. A., 1851, 100, pl. 64.— Baird, 

 M. N. A., 1857, 169.— Suckley, N. H. W. T., 1860, 92.— Sam., 

 Rep. Mass. Agr. for 1861, 154, pl. 1, f. 2, 4. — Maxim., Arch. 

 Naturg., 1861, — . — Ross, Canad. Nat. and GeoL, vi, 1861, 441.— 

 Merriam, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 661 (Idaho).— 

 Ames, Bull. Minn. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1874, 69. 



1877. Putorius (Gale) vulgaris, Coues, Mon. N. A. Mustelidte, 1877, 102, pl. 

 vi, figs. 2, 4. 



Common Names. — Common Weesel, Penn., Hist. Quad., 1781, No. 192; 

 Arctic Zool., i, 1784, 75, No. 25. — Wiesel, Kleine Wiesel, German. — Wezel, 

 Belgic. — Vsesel, Danish. — Sneemuus, Danish (white). — Swomus, Swedish 

 (white). — Ballattula, Italian.— Gomxidreja, Spanish. 



Specific Characters. — General body colors substantially as in P. ermineus ; 

 under parts white, very rarely tinged with sulphury yellow. Size small; 

 length of head and trunk six or eight inches ; tail slender, cylindrical, 

 pointed at tip ; tail concdor (sometimes blackish at tip in western speci- 



