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suffusion of whitish behind it. Ear white or buffy except at 

 extreme base, which is blackish. Tail black at tip, elsewhere 

 white set off by underlying black ; the individual hairs cream- 

 colour through basal third, then darkening rapidly through raw- 

 umber to black, the terminal third white. 



Shull. — The skull is smaller than that of Mustela putorius, 

 though resembling it in its general strength and massiveness, 



FlQ. 86. 

 Vormela peregusna. Nat. size. 



particularly in lateral view. Dorsal profile almost exactly as in 

 Mustela putorius, flat from level of anterior portion of orbit to 

 occipital region, the rostrum bent downward at an evident angle. 

 Depth of rostrum relatively great, as in M. putorius, and notice- 

 ably exceeding that of Mustela erminea. Postorbital constriction 

 abrupt, as in Mustela eversmanni, giving the skull when viewed 

 from above a very peculiar aspect as compared with that of 



