MUSTELA 425 



<5, 9. Aberystwyth. (Buskin- G. Barrett-Hamilton 11. 1. 2. 105-106. 



Butterfield.) (p). 



6 skeleton. Boneath, Cardigan- W. E. de Vinton 0. 10. 9. 1. 



shire. (c & p). 



2. England. Purchased. 39. 7. 15. 2-3. 



3 <5, 9. Ingelheim, Rhein- C. Hilgert (c). 8. 11. 12. 18-21. 

 hessen, Germany. 



(J,?. Ingelheim, Rhein- G. Barrett-Hamilton 11. 1.2. 107-108. 



hessen. (Erlcmger.) (p). 



2 <J, juv. Ummerstadt, Thiirin- Lord Lilford (p). 11. 1. 1. 94-95. 

 gen. (Schuchardt.) 



9. Magdeburg, Saxony. Lord Lilford (p). 11. 1. 1. 93. 



(Wolterstorff.) 0. 2. 8. 5. 



V. Niesky, Silesia, Ger- Lord Lilford (p). 97. 12. 4. 19. 



many. (Baer.) 



S. Teufen, Appenzell, O. Thomas (p). 2. 8. 4. 24. 



Switzerland. (Zolli- (Type of Putorius p. manium 



kofer.) Barrett-Hamilton.) 



S. St. Gallen. (Zolli- 0. Thomas (p). 4. 4. 5. 32. 



kofer.) 



9. Florence, Italy. E. Cavendish Taylor 5. 5. 6. 9. 



(c & p). 



3 <5, 2 <5 juv. Viterbo, Rome. G. Barrett-Hamilton 11.1.2. 30-34. 



(C. Coli.) (p). 



6 juv. Burgos, Spain. G. S. Miller (c). 8. 8. 4. 49. 



Mustela putorius aureolus Barrett-Hamilton. 



1904. Putorius putorius aureolus Barrett-Hamilton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., 7th ser., xin, p. 389, May, 1904. Type in British Museum. 



Type locality. — Ferrol, Province of Coruna, Spain. 



Geographical distribution. — Southern and western portions of 

 the Iberian Peninsula. 



Diagnosis. — Underfur usually yellowish to extreme base, the 

 exact shade sometimes as bright as buff-yellow. 



Measurements. — Type : hind foot, 61 ■ 5 ; ear, 19. For cranial 

 measurements see Table, p. 426. 



Specimens examined. — Pour, from the following localities in Spain : 

 Ferrol, Corufia, 1 (type) ; Seville, 1 ; no exact locality (probably vicinity of 

 Seville), 2. 



Bemarks. — The status of this form is at present very 

 unsatisfactory. Only two specimens are known with exact 

 localities. One of these is from the extreme north-west of Spain, 

 the other from the neighbourhood of Seville. Together with two 

 Spanish skins without complete history they differ from ordinary 

 Mustela putorius in the conspicuously more yellow colour of the 

 underfur. Two skins from the neighbourhood of Burgos are, 

 however, indistinguishable from German or English specimens. 



9. Ferrol, Coruna, Spain. Dr. V. L. Seoane (p). 94. 3. 12. 1. 



(Type of sub-species.) 

 9. Seville. (Dr. A. Ruiz.) Lord Lilford (p). 95. 3. 3. 9. 



2. Spain. Lord Lilford (p). 94. 6. 11. 2-3. 



