THE MARTIN. 



Generic Characters. 

 Six cutting and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Nofe marp ; body llender. 

 Five toes on each foot, 



Synonims. 

 Martes gutture albo, Gefner Quad. 764. 

 Martes, alias Foyna, Martin, or Martlet, Rail 



Syn. Quad. 200. 

 Mustela Martes, Linn. Syft. 67. 

 Mard, Faun. Suec. No. 15. 

 Kuna, Rzaczinfki Polon. 222. 

 Stein-Marter, Klein Quad. 64. 

 La Fouine, de Buffon, vii. 186. tab. xviii. 

 Martin, Brit. Z00L I. 79. 



THE Martin is the moft beautiful of the Britifh beafts of prey. The 

 elegance of its form, the brilliancy of its colours, and the graceful agility of 

 all its motions, render it at once a moll pleating and entertaining little 

 creature. Its odour is likewife an additional recommendation to it; for, 

 inftead of being ofFenlive, like moll of its tribe, it has the agreeable flavour 

 of mufk, without being fo predominant. 



The length of the Martin is generally eighteen inches from the end of 

 the nofe to the infertion of the tail, which is ten inches long, well clothed 

 with long hair, and bufliy at the end. Its head is fmall, and the form of it 

 elegant ; its eyes are lively and full of expreflion ; its ears broad, rounded, 



