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Jackafh ; Mr. Graham from Severn river fays, 

 that it harbours about creeks, and lives on 

 fifh, like the otter 5 it travels very flowly, and 

 has from four to feven young at a time ; in 

 iize it equals the marten j its length is about 

 16 inches ; its whole body is covered with 

 fbining dark brown hairs, which lie very 

 clofe, and feem perfectly convenient for an 

 amphibious animal ; under thefe brown hairs 

 the woolly hairs are tawny, the whole under- 

 jaw is encompafled by a ftripe of white hairs, 

 and a little irregular fpot of the fame coIoue 

 appears in the middle of the throat j the feet 

 are quite covered with hair to the very nails 7 

 which are fmall, five on each foot, and of a 

 whitifh femipellucid colour ; the tail is pretty 

 well befet with hair, though not bufhy, and 

 much blacker than the reft of the body ; it 

 is about half as long as the whole animal. 



3. Pine Marten. Penn. Syn. Quad. p. 216. n*. 



155. Mujiela Martcs (Abietum). Linn. 

 Severn River. Male and Female. 



Thefe feem to be a variety of the yellow- 

 breafted marten, Br. Zool. I. 3r. their colour,, 

 efpecially in the females, being much paler 

 than that defcribed in Mr. Pennant's works. 

 The male is of a chefnut brown, the female 

 a bright tawny yellow y the former has here 

 fome dark brown hairs, the latter in the fame 

 manner has fome bright bay hairs. They 

 both have white cheeks, and white tips of 

 the ears. Their furrs are very full of hair, 

 2 proper. 



