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proper to preferve them from the cold. The 

 tail in both fexes is bufriy, and darker than 

 the reft of the body ; in the female indeed it is 

 tawny, with a black tip ; in both it is fhorter 

 than defcribed by Mr. Pennant, Mr. BrifTon, 

 and others, and was perhaps mutilated. This 

 fpecies feeds on mice, rabbits, &c. though it 

 will not touch a dead moufe which is put as a 

 bait in a trap, and therefore the inhabitants are 

 obliged to make ufe of a partridge's head, or the 

 like, for that purpofe. If purfued with noi(e, it 

 immediately gets up into a tree. Some gentle- 

 men have unfjccefs fully attempted to tame 

 thefe creatures, and thofe kept in cages with 

 that view have been obferved to be troubled 

 with epileptick fits. Numbers of them are 

 caught at Hudfon's Bay in traps made of 

 fmall iticks. They burrow under ground,, 

 and bring forth from four to feven young at 

 a time. 



4, Stoat and Ermine. Penn. Syn. Quad, p. 212*. 



n. 151. a. /3. Mujlela Erminea. Linn. 

 Severn River, Albany Fort. 



One. in the fummer and another in the winter 

 drefs. The natives about Albany call them 

 Sic-cufe-Jue, but it is not known why they 

 give them that name. They feed on mice, 

 fmall birds, all fort of fifh, flelri,. and fowl. 



5. Common Weeseu Penn. Syn. Quadr. p. 27 1.. 



n. 150. Mujlela nivalis. Linn. 

 One in its winter drefs, length 7 inches, tail about 

 1 inch, perhaps mutilated 1 it is quite white, but 



the 



