*7 6 MAMMALIA. IERJE. Weafels. 



with black and rufty brown ; the ears are fliort ; in the upper jaws are twelve grinders, fix on each 

 fide, and ten in the lower. 



344 4- Pekan. — 3. MuJIela canadenfis. 13. 



The fur is of a blackifh tawny, or bay, colour ; having a white fpot on the breaft. 

 Erxleb. mam. 455. Schreber, iii. 472. t. cxxix. 



Pekan. Sm. Buff. vii. 307. pi. ccxlv. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 204. Ar<fr. zool. n. 28. 



Inhabits North America. — This animal, in its form, is like the Pine Martin ; the body and head 

 are near two feet long, and the tail above ten inches ; the hair on the head, back, and belly, is very 

 foft and gloffy, cinereous at the roots, and of a bright bay at the ends ; the fides are tinged with 

 grey ; the legs and tail are black ; there is a white fpot between the fore legs ; the toes ^re thickly 

 covered with hair, and are armed with fharp claws ; the ears are a little pointed; the mouth is gar- 

 nifhed with very long and ftrong whifkers. 



345 5. Vifon. — Mufiela Vifon. 



Of a bright and gloffy tawny brown colour ; the tail dufky. Sm. Buff. vii. 307. pi. ccxlvh 

 Penn. hift. of quad. n. 205. Arcl. zool. n. 29. 



Inhabits North America. — Refembles the Martin : The body and head are above feventeen inches 

 long, and the tail nine; the legs are very fliort ; the ears are rounded; beneath the hair is a thick foft 

 down, of a cinereous colour tipt with nifty brown. 



->,i 5 6. Common Martin. — -4. Mujlela Foina. 4. 



Of a blackifli chefnut colour ; the throat and breaft white. Erxleb. mam. 45 S. Schreber, 

 iii. 472. t. cxxix. 



Weafel, Muftela, having the hairs whitifh at the roots, and chefnut coloured at the extremities; 

 the throat white. Briff. quad. 178. — Martes domeftica, or Common Martin. Gefn. quad. 765.- Al- 

 urov. 332. Jonft. quad. 156. — Martes, Foyna, Martlet, or Martin. Raj. quad. 200. — Martin. Penn. 

 hift. of quad. n. 199. Sm. Buff. iv. 239. pi. lxx. — Marder. Ridinger, klein. thier. t. 85. 



Inhabits Britain, Germany, France, and moft parts of the fouth of Europe ; and is found even in 

 the warmer parts of Ruffia. — Goes about during the night in queft of prey, living on fmall quadru- 

 peds, frogs, and birds, being particularly greedy of poultry and eggs, even devours ripe fruits, and is 

 r. great enemy to cats ; may be tamed, if catched young. The female, when young, brings three or 

 four, and,, when full grown, as far as feven at a birth. The body and head are a foot and a half long; 

 the tail ten inches; the body, fides, and legs are covered with hair, which is afh coloured-at the bot- 

 tom, bright chefnut in the middle, and black at the tips ; the throat and breaft are white ; the belly 

 deep brown ; the tail is dufky and full of hair ; the feet are broad, covered at the bottom with thick 

 down, and armed with white claws ; the head is brown with a reddilh tinge, having broad rounded 

 _...--, and lively eyes. It is a moft elegant, lively animal, very good natured, fportive, and capable of 



being 



