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STOAT. 



Class I. 



18. Common, Mustela Candida, animal er- 

 or Ermine. mineum, Rail syn. quad. 198. 



Mori. Northampt. 442. 



Meyer s an. ii. Tab. 23, 24. 



Mustela hieme alba, sestate su- 

 pra rutila infra alba, caudse 

 apice nigro. Brisson quad. 

 176. 



Be Buff on, Tom. vii. 240. Tab. 

 29. Fig. 2. Tab. 31. Fig. 1. 



Brit. Carlwm 



Fren. L'Hermine, Le Roselet 



Ital. Armellino 



Span. Armino, Armelina 



Gesner quad. 753. 



Mustela erminea. M. plan- 



tis fissis, caudae apice atro. 



Gtn. Lin. 98. Faun. Suec. 



17- 



Pontop. Norway. Partn.ip.25. 

 Br. Zool. 40. Hist. quad.No. 



234. ii. p. 35. Arct. Zool 



i. No. 25. p. 86. 



Germ. Hermelin, Klein. 63. 



Swed. Hermelin, Lekatt 



Dut. Hermilyn 



Dan. Hermelin,' Lekat. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



X HE length* of the stoat to the origin of the 

 tail, is ten inches ; that of the tail is five inches 

 and a half. The colors bear so near a resem- 

 blance to those of the weesel, as to cause them 

 to be confounded together by the generality of 

 common observers ; the weesel being usually 

 mistaken for a small stoat ; but these animals- 

 have evident and invariable specific differences, 

 by which they may be easily known. First, by 

 the size; the weesel being ever less than the 

 stoat : secondly, the tail of the latter is always 



* A stoat was brought to the editor in 1809 which measured 

 twenty inches including the tail. It had a strong musky smell 

 resembling that of the martin ; in color and other respects, it 

 did not differ from the. common kind Ed. 



