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MAMMALIA, 



Var.—furio ( =^omesiicated ferret). 



fl. Skin.skelet. ? W. Rutledge. 



*• Skin ^ W. Rutledge. 



c. Skin, skelet. ^ W. Rutledge. 



rf.Skm, skull s W. Rutledge. 



^. Skin, skelet. S W. Rutledge. 



/. Stuffed, skull Europe Maharaja of Burdwan, 1858, 



A. S. B. 



S- Ale. O. L. Fraser. 



Putorius larratus. 



Putorius larratus, Hodgson J. A. S. B., xviii, p. 447, pi. xi (1849) ; Blanford 



Mammals^ p. 163. 

 Putorius tibetanus, Horsfield Cat. E. I. Mus., p. 105 {1851). 



The Thibetan Pole Cat. 



Distribution. — Thibet ; the type was procured in the Utsany 

 district north of Sikkim, another specimen in the Biitish Museum 

 was obtained from Ladak by General Strachey. 



[No specimens in the Indian Museum.] 



Putorius sarmaticus. 



Mustela sarmatica, Pallas Itin., i, p. 453 (1771)*; Hutton J. A. S. B., xiv, 

 p. 346; Blytk Cat. no. 198, p. 68; Alston P. Z.S., 1880, p. 53; Scully 

 Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), viii, p. 227. 



Mustela peregusna, Guldensfadi N. Comm. Petrop., xiv, p. 441 (1770). 



Foetorius sarmaticus, Keyserling and Blasizu Wirbelth. Europ., p. 68 

 (1840) ; Blasius Saugeth. Deutschl., p. 226. 



Putorius sarmaticus, Griffith An. Kingd.,v,p. t2l (1827); Coties Pur-bearing 

 Animals of North America, p. 157; BlanjFord Mammals, p. 164; Thomas 

 Linn. Trans. (2), v, p. 58; RaddeZool. J. B., iv, p. 1023. 



Distribution. — Eastern Europe, Poland and Russia, Western Asia 

 from Asia Minor (Alston^ to Kandahar (Hutton and Scully) ; also 

 throughout the Transcaspian region. 



«■/. 6 Skins Afghanistan Purchased, 1872. 



g. Stuffed „ T. Hutton, 1845, A.S.B. 



h. Skull „ Sir A. Burnes, i84J,A.S.B. 



Putorius erminea. 



Mustela erminea, Linnatis Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 68 (1766); Hodgson 

 J. A. S. B., vi, p. 564; id. ibid, x, p. 909; id. ibid, xi, p. 280 ; Gray Cat. 

 Hodgs. Coll., tst ed., p. 13 ; Adams P. Z. S., 1858, p. 517 j Blytk Cat., no. 

 201, p- 68; Radde Ost Sibiriens, p. 52 ; Schrenck Amurland Saugeth., 

 p. 40 ; Gray Cat. Cam. Mamm., p. 88 ; Severtsoff Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), 

 xviii, p. 45; Brauns Jena Zeit. Zool., xvii, p. 454; Blanford Yarkand 

 tfamm., p. 32. 



Putorius erminea, Griffith An. Kingd.,v, p. 122X1827); Coues Fur-bearing 

 Animals of North America, p. log ; Blanford Mammals, p. 165. 



