Crass. COMMON WEESEL. 95 
from Hudfon’s bay and Canada. In one of the 
company’s fales * not fewer than 12,370 good fkins; 
and 2360 damaged ones were fold; and about the 
fame time, the French brought into the port of 
Rochelle from Canada, not lefs than 30,325. 
The principal differences between this and the 
former kind, confift in the fize, this being lefs: the 
breaft too is yellow; the color of the body much 
darker, and the fur in general greatly fuperior 
in finenefs, beauty, and value. 
The Weafel or Weefel. Muftela Muftela fupra rutila, infra al- 17. Com Moe. 
vulgaris: in Yorkfbire, the ba. Briffon quad. 173. 
Fitchet orFoumart. Rai fyx. De Buffon, Tom. vil. 235. 
quad. 195. Tab. 29. 
Girald. Cambrenf. 149. Gefuer quad. 753. 
The Whitred. Sib. Scot. 11, Muttela vulgaris. Klein quad. 625 
Br. Zool. 39. Syn. quad. No. 150. 
Brit. Bronwen Germ. Wifel 
Fren. La Belette | Dut. Weezel 
ftal. Donnola, Ballottula, Benula Swed. Vefla 
Span. Comadreia Dap. eV | 
Port. Doninha 
HIS fpecies is the left of rhe weefel kind ; Descariv. 
the length of the head aiid body not exceed- 
ing fix, or at moft feven inches. The tail is only 
two inches and a half long, and ends in a point: 
the ears are large; and the lower parts of them a are 
-doubled in. 
* In 1743. Vide Dobbs’s account of Hudfin’s bay, 200. 
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