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CARNIVORA. 
THE ZORRA. ZORRA. 
Mustela Sinuensis, Humboldt. 
The Baron Humboldt describes this species of 
American marten as having the body less vermi- 
formed than the race in general ; of a blackish gray 
colour, with the under parts and insides of the ears 
white ; the tail half the length of the body, and but 
little covered with hair. 
THE WHITE-EARED WEASEL. 
Mustela Leucotis. Temminck. 
In the museum of that celebrated naturalist, Mr. 
Temminck, is preserved a weasel, which he has named 
leucotis, apparently because of the whiteness of the 
ears. It is twenty inches long. The fur is of a 
deep glossy sepia brown colour, like the beaver, but 
the insides of the ears are white. 
