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tations ; and the female generally brings forth her 
young in barns, or holes in rocks, which she takes 
care first to line with moss. She generally produces 
from three to seven young ones at a time. 
THE MARTEN. LA MARTS. 
Mustela Abietum. Ray. 
Mustela Maries. Lin. 
This and the preceding species were confounded 
together by Linnaeus, although it was distinguished 
by Ray, in his excellent Synopsis of Quadrupeds, by 
the name of martes abieturriy with reference to its 
being found generally in pine forests. • 
It is rather larger than the beech marten, the body, 
from the nose to the anus, being about eighteen 
inches long, and the tail about nine or ten inches. 
' The fur, like that of the preceding, is formed of two 
sorts of hair ; the first is long and close, the base of 
which is ash-colour, but the middle yellow, and the 
tips dark brown. The second sort of fur is very fine, 
rather downy, of a yellowish ash-colour, and not en- 
tirely hidden by the long hairs ; on the chest, fore 
legs, and tail, it is brown black ; on the throat and 
neck clear yellow. 
This animal is very wild, and hardly ever forsakes 
