224 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



{kins are fold in the country for from two to three 

 pounds fterling per hundred.- — In Norway, they are ei- 

 ther {hot with blunt arrows, or taken in traps made of 

 two flat ftones, one being propped up with a ftick, to 

 which is faftened a baited firing ; and as foon as the ani- 

 mal begins to nibble, the ftones fall down, and crufh it 



to death. The Stoat is likewife found white in the 



winter time in Great-Britain, and is then erroneoufly 

 called a White Weafel. Its fur, however, among us, is 

 of little value, having neither the thicknefs, the clofenefs, 

 nor the whitenefs, of thofe that come from Siberia, 



One of them, which we had in our pofTeflion, had en- 

 tirely affumed its winter robe ; but with a confiderable 

 mixture of yellow, efpecially on the top of the head and 

 back. 



They begin to change from brown to white in Novem- 

 ber, and refume their fummer vefture in March. 



The natural hiftory of this animal is much the fame 

 with that of the "Weafel ; its food being young birds, 

 rabbits, mice, &c. ; its agility the fame ; and its fcent 

 equally fetid. 



