2. PTJTOEIUS. 87 



2. PUTORIUS. 



Skull short, ventrioose ; teeth 34, false grinders f; the upper 

 tubercular grinder small, transverse, scarcely larger on the inner 

 than on the outer side ; head short, ovate ; feet hairy, space between 

 the pads very hairy ; body stout ; underside blackish. 



Putorius, Cuvier; Oray, Cat. M. B. M. xx. p. 64; P. Z. S. 1865, 



p. 108, 

 Foetorius, Keys. Sf Bias. 

 Mustela putorius, Nihsan, Skand. Fauna, p. 147. 



* Back uniform. 



1. Putorius fcetidus. (Polecat.) B.M. 



Fur harsh, rigid, brown ; skull scarcely contracted behind the 

 orbits ; orbits small ; feet and tail black ; mouth and ears whitish. 



Mustela putorius, lAnn. S. N. p. 167 ; Pallas, Zoogr. i. p. 37 ; Nilsson, 



Skand. Faun. p. 148 ; lUum. Fig. t. 30 ; Blainv. OsUogr. Muatela, 



t. 4 (skeleton), t. 7 (skuU), t. 13 (teeth). 

 Mustela foetida, Klein. 

 Putorius typus, F. Cuviei: 

 Putorius communis, Cuvier, B. A. 

 Putorius vulgaris, Or ay ; Owen, Brit. Foss. Mamm. p. 122, f. 38, 39 



(skull). 

 Putorius fcetidus, Qray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 64 ; P. Z. S. 1865, 



p. 108. 

 Fitchet Weasel, Penn. B. Z. p. 136. 



Yax.l.furo. More or less albino ; eyes red. 



Mustela furo, lAnn. 



Furet, Buff. H. N. vii. t. 26, 27, 28, 29. 



Var. 2. swbfuro, Polecat-Ferret. Yellow ; the legs, tail, toes, and 

 tips of the hairs black ; head white. Bred from two yellow Ferrets. 

 (Saffron Walden Museum.') 



Le Furet putoire, Buff. S. N. Supp. t. 27. 



The skulls vary considerably in the width and depression of the 

 brain-case ; but they are never suddenly contracted in front behind 

 the orbit, as the skull of P. Eversmannii. 



2. Putorius Eversmaimii. B.M. 



Fur soft, black-brown, in winter whitish or yellowish, hairs of 

 back black-tipped ; limbs short ; the thighs and end of the tail black ; 

 the skuU broad ; brain-case suddenly and strongly contracted in front 

 behind the orbits ; orbits large. 



Mustela putorius, var., PaU. Z. R.-A. p. 89. 

 Mustela Eversmannii, Less. Man. ; Nordm. Faun. Pont. p. 16. 

 Mustela putorius, var. sibiric% Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 

 Mustela putorius, Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 281. 



