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MUSTELA MARTES . — L x n n. — G m e l. 
Pine Makten. 
PLATE CXXXYIII . — Male and Female.— Natural Size. Winter Pelage. 
M. Magnitudine Putorio visone major, flavida, liic illic nigrescens, capite 
pallidiore, gula flavescente, cauda longa, floccosa, acuta. 
CHARACTERS. 
Larger than the mink ; general colour, yellowish, blended witn olackish in 
parts ; head, lighter ; throat, yellow. Tail, long, bushy, and pointed. 
SYNONYMES. 
Genus Mustela. Linn. 
Sub-genus Mustela. Cuvier. 
Mustela Martes. Linn. Gmel., vol. i. p. 95. 
Pine Marten. Pennant’s Arctic Zoology, vol. i. p. 7. 
Mustela Martes. Sabine, Franklin’s Journey, p. 651. 
“ “ Harlan, Fauna, p. 6 V. 
“ “ Godman, Nat. Hist., vol. i. p. 200. 
“ Zibellina (?). Godman, Nat. Hist., vol. i. p. 208. 
“ Martes. Rich., F. B. A., p. 51, summer specimen. 
“ Huro. F. Cuv. 
“ Martes — American Sable. DeKay, Nat. Hist. State of New York, part i. 
p. 32, pi. 19, fig. 2, skull. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Head, long and pointed ; ears, broad and obtusely pointed ; legs, rather 
long and tolerably stout ; eyes, small and black ; tail, bushy and cylindri- 
cal ; toes, with long, slender, and compressed nails, nearly concealed by 
the hair. Hair, of two kinds — the outer long and rigid, the inner soft and 
somewhat woolly. 
COLOUR. 
This species varies a good deal In colour, so that it is difficult to find 
two specimens exactly alike ; the under fur, however, does not differ as 
