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4. Martes melanopus, (Japanese Sable.) B.M. 



Fur soft, yellow-brown ; underside scarcely paler ; orbit, and streak 

 from orbit to nose, and feet blackisb ; crown of head paler ; sides of 

 nose, cheeks, and throat white. 



Martes (Melampiia) melaaopus, Gray, List Mam. B. M. p. 63 ; P. Z. S. 



1865, p. 105; Qerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. p. 91. 

 Mustela melanopus, Temm. Fauna Japan, p. 31, t. 7. f. 3, 4 (animal 



and skull). 



Hah. Japan. 



5. Martes zibellina, Linn. (Sable.) B.M. 



Fur very soft, black, grey, or yeUow-brown ; throat like back, or 

 paler yellowish or whitish ; feet very hairy. Skull and the hinder 

 upper grinders, according to M. de BlainviUe's figure, are like those 

 of M. abietum vulgaris. 



Mustela zibellina, var. alba and fulvo-flavesoens, Brandt, Zobel, t. 2. 

 - f. 5, 6. 



Mustela zibellina, Linn. ; Pall Spic. Zool. ; Blainv. Ostiogr. t. 7 (skull), 

 t. 13. f. (teeth) ; Schrenck, Amurland, p. 27 ; Middendorff, N. u. O. 

 Sib. Sdugeth. p. 68, t. 2. f. 1, 2, 3, 5 (pelvis and tail). 

 Mustela zibeUina, var. rossica, Brandt. 

 Martes zibellina, Brisson. 

 Viverra zibellinp., Shaw. 

 Zibeline, Buffon, IT. N. 

 Sable, Perm. ; Bennett, Garden and Menag. 

 Martes zibellina, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 106. 



a. Fur blackish, with a few white scattered hairs ; under-fur lead- 

 colour ; head and chin greyish, grizzled with pale grizzly hairs. B.M. 



Mustela zibellina asiatica, Brandt, Zobel, t. 1. 



6. Fur blackish, with many white hairs ; under-fur whitish ; orbit, 

 cheeks, throat, and chest whitish. B.M. 



Mustela zibellina asiatica rupestris, Brandt, Zobel, t. 2. f. 



c. TeUow-brown ; under-fur yellowish white ; head, upper parts 

 of body, neck, throat, and chest whitish ; legs, feet, and tail darker. 



B.M. 

 Mustela zibellina asiatica, Brandt, Zobel, t. 2. f. 4. 



d. Yellowish brown ; under-fur of same colour ; ears and cheeks 

 whitish ; tail dusky, darker ; feet blackish. B.M. 



Mustela zibellina sylvestris, Brandt, Zobel, t. 2. f. 4. 



e. Fur whitish or white. 



Hah. North Europe, Asia. 



Middendorff (Saugeth. N. u. Sib. t. 2) figures the pelvis and tail 

 of M. zihelUna and M. martes of Siberia ; he represents the former 

 as much shorter, and composed of thirteen, and the latter much longer 

 and larger, and consisting of seventeen vertebrae. 



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