COMMON AMERICAN Wi XSi Ee eC ORTOS MONG HEA IDiGES: 
ALLAN BROOKS. 
This is the large weasel, which, with its 
sub-species, spadix, saturatus, arizoniensis, 
and allem, ranges from Western Ontario 
and New England to the Pacific Coast; 
and from the most Southwestern states 
(in the higher mountains only), North to 
the Saskatchewan river, and Northern 
British Columbia. 
noveboracensis, the common weasel of New 
England); females of the mongicaudus 
type being nearly as lage as males. 
This is a large and powerful animal. 
compared with the smaller species, and is 
much more destructive to game, beme¢ 
capable of killing a full grown rabbit or 
grouse. 
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COMMON AMERICAN WEASEL, PUTORIUS MONGICAUDUS. 
It can always be told from Bonaparte’s 
weasel by its much larger size, proportion- 
ately longer tail, and, in summer pelage. 
by the yellow or ochraceous under parts. 
Large males are nearly as large as small 
female mink, and in general coloration re- 
semble the nale colored marten to a con- 
siderable extent; especially the Pacific 
coast form, saturatus, which is very richly 
colored. There is not the same discrep- 
ancy in size between the sexes, so notice- 
able in the small weasels, (and in Putor:us 
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smaller rodents; on the prairies, gophers 
and ground squirrels; and in the moun- 
tains, squirrels, chipmunks, pikas, and mice 
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Throughout its range this weasel turns 
snow white in winter, only the under sur- 
face of the tail being suffused with yellow- 
ish, and of course the tip remains black. 
For full information on the weasels the 
reader is referred to Dr. Merriam's 
“Synopsis of the Weasels of North Ameri- 
ca.” (North American Fauna, No. 11.) 


