W E E S E L. 
Inhabits, in great abundance, the N. of Europe , 
and of Afia •, is met with in Newfoundland, and Ca¬ 
nada * : the fkins a great article of commerce in 
Norway and Siberia: is found in the laft place in 
plenty in birch forefts, but none in thofe of fir or 
pine : the fkins are fold on the fpot, from two to 
three pounds fterling per hundred “f: taken in Nor¬ 
way in traps, baited with flefh *, in Siberia J either 
fhot with blunt arrows, or taken in a trap made of 
two flat ftones, propped by a flick, to which is 
faftened a baited fixing, which, on the left touch of 
the animal, falls down and kills it: its manners and 
food the fame with the former •, but does not fre¬ 
quent houfes : its haunts are woods and hedges, efpe* 
cialy fuch as border on fome brook* 
Putorius Gefner quad. 767. ore auriculifque albis. Lin. fyfl. i£2. Poi>l* 
Yltis Agricola An. Subter. 485. 67. Iller Faun. j' uec% No. 16. « A T. 
Pole cat, or Fitchet, Raii fyn. Muftela pilis in exortu ex cine- 
quad. 196. reo albidis, cojore nigricante ter- 
Tchorz. Rzaczinfki Polon. 2^6. minatis, oris circumferentia alba. 
Muftela fcetida. litis. Teuftpls Briffonquad. 186. 
kind. Klein, quad. 63. Le Putois de Buffon, vii, 199. 
Muftela putorius. M. pedibus tab. xxiii. 
fiftis, corpore flavo nigricante ; Pole cat Br. Zool. I. 77. 
W. with the fpace round the mouth •, and the tips 
of the ears white : head, body, and legs, of a cho¬ 
colate color, almoft black ♦, on the fides the hairs 
are of a tawny caft: tail black: length feventeen 
inches *, tail fix. 
* Charlevoix hift. Nouv. France, v. 197. 
ft Muller Rujf. Samlung. 516. 
x Bell's travels, I. 199. Ponton. Norway, II. 25; 
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