Crass I. Sf. BA OD Al: Tt 
nivalis *. Ihave met with it in that circumftance, 
in the ifle of Tay. 
Muftela candida, animal er- Fig. 2. Tab. 31. Fig. 1. 
mineum, Raz fyn quad. 198 Gefner quad. 753. 
Mort. Northampt. 442. Muftela erminea. M. plan- 
Meyer’s an. ii. Tab. 23, 24. tis fiflis, caude apice atro. 
Muftela hieme alba, zftate fu- Lin. fyft. 68. Faun. Suec. 
pra rutila infra alba, caude a 
apice nigro. Briffon quad. Pontop. Norway. Parti. p. 25. 
476. | Br. Zool. 40. Syn. quad. No. 
De Buffon, vii. 240. Tab. 29. 15 ie 
Brit. Carlwm Germ. Hermelin, Klein. 63. 
Fren. L’Hermine, Le Rofe- Swed. Hermelin, Lekatt 
let Dut. Hermilyn 
Ttal.  Armellino Dan. WHermelin, Lekat - 
Span. Armino, Armelina 
HE length of the ftoat to the origin of the tail, 
is ten inches: that of the tail is five inches 
and a half. The colors bear fo near a refemblance 
to thofe of the weefel, as to caufe them to be con- 
founded together by the generality of common 
obfervers ; the weefel being ufually miftaken for 
a {mall ftoat: but thefe animals have evident and 
invariable fpecific differences, by which they may 
be eafily known. Firft, by the fize; the weefel 
being ever lefs than the ftoat: fecondly, the tail 
of the latter is always tipt with black, is longer in 
* Similima Ermineo fed dimidio minor, cand@ apice pilo vix 
uno alterove aloo. Faun. Suec. No. 18, Syft, Nat. 69. 
Vor, I. H propor- 
89 
£8. :oTOAL, 
or ERMINE. 
DESCRIP, 
