MAMMALIA, FERiE. Weafels. ity 



being tamed ; liyes in woods, breeding in hollows of trees, and is often, hi winter, found in magpies 

 nefts. The ikin and excrements have a mufky fmell. 



7. Pine Martin. — 5. Mujlcla Maries. 5. 



The body is of a dark or blackifh chefnut colour, with a yellow bread and throat. 

 Erxleb. mam. 455. Schreber, iii. 475. t. cxxx. 



Muftela, or Weafel, having hair of a cinereous grey or whitifh colour at the roots, and chefnut 

 at the extremities, with a yellow throat. BrifT. quad. 179. — Martes fylveftris. Gefn. quad. 766.— 

 Pine Martin, Martes abietum. Raj. quad. 200. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 200. Arct. zool. n. 27. — 

 Yellow-breafted Martin. Brit. zool. i. 81. Sm. Buff. iv. 245. pi. lxxiii. — Martes. Aldrov. dig. 

 331. — Marder. Ridinger, wilde thiere. t. 30. 



Inhabits the north of Europe, Afia, and America ; and is more rarely found in Britain, France, 

 Germany, and Hungary; and as far as Tonquin and China. — Lives in large woods or forefts, keeping 

 in the day time in the hollows of trees, occupying fquirrels nefts, efpecially for their young, and only 

 goes about by night : It preys on fquirrels, mice, rats, and fmall birds; eats likewife berries, ripe 

 fruit, and honey; and, in winter, goes in queft of pigeons and poultry. It procreates in February, 

 and is faid, after nine months, to bring forth feven or eight young ones : The head is fhorter, and 

 the legs are fomewhat longer, than in the Common Martin. The fur of this fpecies is far fuperior 

 in finenefs to that of the common kind, and is a prodigious article in commerce; Thofe about Mount 

 Caucafus, with an orange throat, are more efteemed by furriers than the reft. 



8. Guiana Martin. — Mnjlela girianenfis. 



Of a dark brown colour, with a white forehead, and a long narrow (tripe along the 

 fide of the neck. Sm. Buff. iv. 243. pi. lxxi. 



Inhabits Guiana. — The body and head are near two feet long, and the tail is only about five inch- 

 es : The fur is fprinkled with black and white; the muzzle is much lengthened, and black, which 

 colour extends above the eyes, paffes under the ears along the neck, and lofes itfelf in the 

 brown hair of the fhoulders; the top of the head is whitiih grey; the neck is brown, interfperfed 

 with afh coloured hairs ; the hairs of the body are grey and afh coloured at the roots, brown in the 

 middle, and black and white at their extremities; the under part of the jaw is blackifh brown, which 

 colour extends under the neck, and vanifhes towards the belly, which is bright brown or chefnut ; 

 the legs and feet are covered with finning reddifh black hair ; the tail is more bufhy at the root, and 

 is of a bright brown mixed with black, 



9^ Cayenne Martin.— Mujlela laniger. 



Is covered with woolly hair ; and the tail is long and taper. 



' Small Guiana Martin. Sm. Buff. iv. 244. pi. lxxii Woolly Weefel. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 210. 



Inhabits Cayenne. — The body and head are near fixteen inches long, and the .tail near nine ; the nofe 

 is very long and {lender, the upper jaw being longer than the under; the ears are fhort and round- 

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