PUTORIUS. 



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Putorius alpinus. 



Mustela alpina, Gebler Mem. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscow, vi, p. 213 (1824)* j 



Eadde Ost Siberiens i, p. 48 ; Severtzoff Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), xviii. 



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 Mustela temon, Hodgson J. A, S. B., xxvi, p. 207 (1857) ; Blanford Yariand 



Mamm., p. 32 ; Scully P. Z. S., 1881, p. 203 ; id. Ann. Mag. N. H. (s), viii, 



p. 97. 

 Putorius alpinus, Blanford Mammals, p. 168 (1888). 



Distribution. — Central Asia, the Altai mountains and Amurland, 

 extending southwards to Thibet and the Himalayas, whence it has 

 been recorded from Gilgit, the Kumaon and the Sikkim frontier. 

 Mr. Blanford remarks on the difference in size of the examples of 

 this species and suggests that the larger individuals may be males, 

 the smaller females, that this is the case is shewn by the following 

 measurements of the individuals in the flesh taken from the tickets 

 of Dr. Scully's specimens, the individuals were also sexed by Dr. 

 Scully himself : — 



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Putorius kathiah. 



Mustela kathiah, Hodgson J. A. S. B., iv, p. 702 (1835) ; G»-aj; Cat. 

 Hodgs. Coll., ist ed., p. 13 ; Walker Calc. fourn. N. H., iii, p. 266 j 

 Horsfield Cat. E. 1. Mus., p. 102; Blyth Cat. no. 203, p. 69; Jerdon 

 Mamm., p. 84. 



Mustela auriventer, //'orfg'soB y. .i4. 5. 5,, a, p. 909 (1841); id. ibid, xi, p. 



280. 

 Symnopus kathiah, Gray /". Z. 5., p. iig (1865); id. Cat. Cam. Mamm., 



p. 96. 

 Putorius cathia, Blanford Mammals, p. i6g (1888). 



