SWIMMERS 



The white spot that so frequently marks the 

 chin or throat of the mink is a peculiar feature, It 

 is so perfectly white and sharply defined against 

 the dark brown fur that surrounds it. It does 

 not seem to depend in any way on age or sex, 

 about one mink in ten being wholly without any 

 white marking whatever. A rather larger number 

 have one half of the chin, as far back as the angle 

 of the mouth, white and the other half brown, the 

 dividing line between the two colours being straight 

 and clear-cut down the exact middle of the chin. 



Perhaps three out of four have the chin wholly 

 white, and of these nearly half have a white spot 

 on the throat or breast as well, usually just be- 

 tween the fore-legs, though often in the form of 

 a narrow stripe along the throat, sometimes 

 extending all the way from the chin to the breast 

 or even further, and again broken into a series of 

 spots of varying size, while I have heard of at 

 least one mink marked with a row of spots down 

 its back as well. 



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