376 Fierp Musreum or Naturat History — Zoézocy, Vor. XI. 
Measurements — Total length (males), generally 10.25 to 12 in. (260 to 
304 mm.); tail vertebra, 3.50 to 4.25 in. (88 to 108 mm.); hind foot, 
about 1.37 in. (35 mm.). Total length (females), 8.50 to 9.50 in. 
(21g to 241 mm.); tail vertebra, 2.75 to 3.25 in. (7o to 82.5 mm.); 
hind foot, about 1.25 in. (32 mm.). 
Remarks — While females of this species often resemble males of 
noveboracensis in size, they may generally be distinguished by the 
relative difference in length of tail (see key, p. 360.) and in summer 
pelage by the whitish color on toes and often on inner side of the 
hind foot. 
Bonaparte’s Weasel (Summer pelage). 
(Putorius cicognanit.) 
Bonaparte’s Weasel, sometimes called Short-tailed Weasel, is found 
in more or less numbers throughout nearly the whole of Wisconsin. 
It is common in the central and northern parts of the state, but scarce 
in the extreme southeastern portion, and so far as known it has not been 
recorded from southwestern Wisconsin or Illinois. Kennicott states 
that he secured specimens of this species in northern Illinois (presum- 
ably Northfield), one of which was sent to the Smithsonian Institution.* 
This specimen (No. 268, marked R. Kennicott, N. Illinois) has been 
examined by Mr. N. Hollister who writes: “Mr. Gerrit S. Miller and 
* Agr. Rept. for 1858, U. S. Patent Office Rept., 1859, p. 244. 
