Crass I. Se Pw Or Arve T; 
ftead of ftones make ufe of two logs of wood *. 
The ftoat is fometimes found white in Great- Britain, 
but not frequently: and then it is called a white 
weefel. That animal is alfo found whites but may 
be eafily diftincuifhed from the other in the ermine 
ftate, by the tail, which in he weefel is of a light 
tawny brown. With us the former is obferved to 
begin to change its color from brown to white in 
November, and to.begin to refume the brown the 
beginning of March. lus 
The natural hiftory of this creature is much the 
fame with that of the weefel, its food being birds, 
rabbets, mice, c. its agilitythe fame, and its {cent 
equally fetid: it is much more common in England 
than that animal. 
PA 
* Oeuvres de Mauperiuis, 4. 187+ 
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