WEESE L, 
Six cutting teeth, two canine teeth in each jaw. 
Sharp nole : flender bodies. 
Five toes before, five behind. 
Muftela Agricola An. Subter. 485. Muflela fupra rutila, infra alba. 
Gefner quad. 752. Brijjon quad. 173. 
Weafel or Weefel, muflela vul- La Belette de Buffon± vii. 225c 
garis ; in Yorkflnre, the Fitchet, tab . xxix. 
or Foumart. Ranfyn. quad. 195. Weefel Br. Z00L I. 82. Br. Zool. 
The Whitred Sib. Scot. III. 11. illujlr. tab. ci. 
Wiefel Klein quad. 62. 
W. with Email rounded ears: whole upper part of 
the head and body, pale tawny brown •, under fide 
entirely white : a brown fpot beneath the corners of 
the mouth : length, from nofe to tail, between fix 
and feven inches *, tail two and a half. 
Inhabits the temperate parts of Europe •, fcarce in 
the North: found alfo in Barb ary*: mentioned once 
by Linn reus 9 under the title of Muflela Nivalis , or 
Snomus**■: very definitive to chickens, birds, and 
young rabbets y a great devourer of eggs: does 
not eat its prey on the fpot * 5 but after killing it, by 
a bite near the head, carries it off to its retreat: is a 
great deftroyer of field mice ; a gentleman informed 
me he found eighty-five, newly killed, in one hole, 
which he believed belonged to this animal: very 
active, runs up the fides of walls with great eafe; 
no place is fecure from its ravages: frequents out- 
* Shaw s Travels, 249. 
*fl M. nivalis; M. pedibus f flis corpore albo, caudse apice vix 
piiis ullis nigris. Lin.fyfi. 6q. Faun.fuec. No." 18. 
P 2 houfes. 
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