S6 STOAT.- Clafsl. 



be-g'in to change its color from brown to white in 

 Jt^ovember, and to begin to relume the brown the be- 

 ginning ox March '*. 



The natural hiftory of this creature is much the 

 fame with that of the weefel, its food being birds, 

 rabbets, mice, i^c. its agility the fame, and its fcent 

 equally fetid : it is much more common in England^ 

 than that animal. 



Sir RobiTt Sihh-e.ld mentions an animal, which he 

 ' fays is common in Caithnefs^ called there Lavellan : by 

 his defcription it feems to belong to this genus. Ha 

 fays it livts in the water, has the head of the wecfel, 

 Slid reft^mbles that creature in color ; and that its 

 breath is prejudicial to cattle. Stb. FUJI. Scot. ii. 



*P^. TV. No. 357. 



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