MUSTELA 391 



120; hind foot, 48 and 48-6. Adult male from Farr, Daviot, 

 Inverness : head and body, 254 ; tail, 110; hind foot, 48 ■ 5. 



Specimens examined. — Seventy-four, from the following localities : — 



Scotland : Thurso, Caithness, 1 ; Sutherlandshire, 1 ; Cromarty, 4 ; 

 Annadale, Skye, 2 ; Farr, Daviot, Inverness, 1 (Wilson) ; Stockbriggs, 

 Lanark, 9; Wyseley, Dumfries, 2; Ecclefechan, Dumfries, 1 (U.S.N.M.). 



Wales: North Wales, no exact locality, 1; Nannerch, Flintshire, 2; 

 Vaynol, Carnarvonshire, 2 ; Usk, Monmouthshire, 2 ; St. Brides, Pembroke- 

 shire, 1 ; St. Fagan's, Cardiff. 



England : Biding-Mill-on-Tyne, Northumberland, 1 ; Westmoreland, 1 ; 

 Doncaster, Yorkshire, 2 ; Leeds, Yorkshire, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Gainsborough, 

 Lincolnshire, 1 ; Derbyshire, 1 ; Sandringham, Norfolk, 3 ; Lowestoft, 

 Suffolk, 1; Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, 1; Friswell, Cambridgeshire, 8; 

 Eugby, Warwickshire, 1; Graftonbury, Hereford, 3; Tring, Hertford, 2; 

 Felden, Hertfordshire, 1 ; Banstead, Surrey, 2 ; Laseley Park, Guildford, 

 Surrey, 1 ; Buckland, Somerset, 2 ; Blandford, Dorset, 3 ; Eversley, 

 Hampshire, 1 ; Whitechurch, Hampshire, 1 ; Selborne, Hampshire, 1 ; 

 Staplehurst, Kent, 1 ; Horsham, Sussex, 2 ; Mayfield, Sussex, 3. 



Remarks. — In the British stoat the change to the white 

 winter coat does not take place so regularly and completely as in 

 the continental forms. This is particularly true in central and 

 southern England. Apart from this character, of problematical 

 value, the animal is distinguishable by its heavy teeth. A few 

 small though apparently well developed skulls from the north 

 of Scotland indicate the possible existence there of a local form 

 somewhat resembling true erminea. 



9. Thurso, Caithness, Soot- W. R. Sherrin (p). 9. 1. 9. 1. 

 land (Mrs. J. Edis). 



3 9. Cromarty. W.B.Ogilvie-Grant 11.1.3.175-177. 



(c & p). 



6, 9. Annadale, Skye. Dr. Hastings (c&p). 11.1.3.395-396 



6. Sutherlandshire. W. Paterson (c&p). 8.11.26.1. 



3 6, st. Stockbriggs, Lanarkshire. E. B. Alston (c&p). 79. 9. 25. 16, 18, 



20. 



3 <5, 9. Stockbriggs, Lanarkshire. E. B. Alston (c & p). 79. 9. 25. 14, 15, 



17, 19. 



9. Stockbriggs, Lanarkshire. E. B. Alston (c&p). 79.9.25.84. 



6, 9. Nannerch, Flintshire, A. B i c h a r d s o n 11. 1. 3. 192-193. 



Wales. (c&p). 



2 9. Vaynol, Carnarvonshire. J. E. Harting (p). 11. 1. 3.194-195. 



2 S. Usk, Monmouthshire. J. S. Phillips (c&p). 87. 8. 6. 1-2. 



St. Brides, Pembroke- Hon. C. Edwardes 90. 12. 5. 1. 

 shire. (c & p). 



1. St. Fagans, Cardiff. J. Cording (c). 90. 6. 19. 1. 



st. Derbyshire, England. Index Museum. 94. 4. 8. 1. 



st. Sandringham, Norfolk. H.M. King Edward 96. 4. 13. 1. 



VII. (p). 



2 st. Sandringham, Norfolk. H.M. King Edward 96. 11. 24. 1-2. 



VII. (p). 



9 st. Lowestoft, Suffolk. F. S. Worthington 98. 2. 15. 1. 



(c & p). 



st. Bury St. Edmunds, Suf- T. Harcourt-Powell 87. 2. 28. 1. 

 folk. (c&p). 



3 6, 4 9. Friswell, Cambridgeshire. W. Farren (c). 4. 5. 3. 1-8. 



i. Eugby, Warwickshire. E. E.Austen (c&p). 11.1.3.181. 



