212 , 
ip, Stoat. 
WEESEL. 
houfes, barns, and granaries: is a great enemy to 
rats and mice, and foon clears its haunts from thofe 
pernicious animals : brings four or five young at a 
time: its fkin and excrements intolerably fcetid : 
fometimes is found white : in Siberia are called Laf- 
mitjka : their Ikins are fold to the Chinefe for three or 
four rubles the hundred. 
Muftela Gefner quad. 733. 
Wiefel Kramer Aujlr. 312. Meyers 
An. II. tab. 23, 24. 
Muftela erminea. M. plantis 
fiffis, caudae apice albo. Lin.JyJl. 
68 . 
Wcfla Paun.fuec. No. 17. 
# Ermine, when white. Mus 
Ponticus Plinii, lib. viii. c. 37. 
Agricola An. Subter. 484. 
Armelinus, Hermelein. Gef- 
ner quad. 754. 
Gornoftay Rzaczinjki Polon. 
ftluftela Candida, animal er- 
Muftela hyeme alba, seftate fu- 
pra rutila infra alba, caudle apice 
nigro. Briffon quad. 176. 
Le Rofelet de Buffon , vii, 240. 
tab. xxix. 
Stoat Br. Zool. I. 84. 
mineum/tew fyn. quad. 198. 
L’Hermine de Buffon, vii. 240. 
tab. xxix. Jig. 2. Briffon quad, 
176^ 
Ermine hiji. Kamtfcbatka, 99. 
Pontop. Norway, II. 25. Br. Z00L 
W. with the upper part of the body pale tawny 
brown: edges of the ears, and ends of the toes, of 
a yellowilh white: throat, • bread:, and belly white c 
end of the tail black: length, from nofe to tail, ten 
inches * tail five and a half: in the N. of Europe 
becomes entirely white at approach of winter, the 
end of the tail excepted: refumes its brown color 
in the fpring: fometimes found white in Great - 
Britain : one was brought to me laft winter, mottled 
with brown and white, the feafon not having been 
fevere enough to effed a total change*, 
* Br. Zool. illufir. tab. ci. 
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