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MANNERS. 
Perr eCVwn eS Crass I. 
The ears are fhort, rounded and tipt with white: 
the circumference of the mouth, that is to fay, the 
ends of the lower and upper mandibles are white: 
the head, throat, breaft, legs and thighs, are whol- 
ly of a deep chocolate color, almoft black. The 
fides are covered with hatrs of two colors; the ends 
of which are of a blackifh hue, like the other parts ; 
the middle of a full tawny color: in others ci- 
nereous. 
The toes are long, and feparated to the very 
origin: the tail is covered with pretty long hair. 
The fitchet is very deftru€tive to young game 
of all kinds, and to poultry: they generally refide 
in woods, or thick brakes; burrowing under 
eround, forming a fhallow retreat, about two 
yards in length; which commonly ends, for its fe- 
curity, among the roots of fome large trees. It will 
fometimes lodge under hay-ricks, and in barns: 
in the winter it frequents houfes, and makes a 
common prattice of robbjng the dairy of the milk : 
it alfo makes great havoke in warrens. 
Tt will bring five or fix young at atime. War- 
-reners aflert, that the fitchet will mix with the ferret; 
and they are fometimes obliged to procure an inter- 
courfe between thefe animals, to improve the breed 
of the latter, which by long confinement will abate 
its favage nature, and become lefs eager after rab- 
bets, and confequently lefs ufeful. M. de Buffon 
cenies that it will admit the fitchet; yet gives 
the figure of a variety under the name of the Ferret 
* Polecat, 
