W E E S E L. 
but is apt to degenerate, and lofe its favage nature: 
warreners * are therefore obliged to procure an in- 
tercourfe between the female and a pole-cat, by 
leaving it near the haunts of the lail: the produce 
is a breed of a much darker color than the ferret, 
partaking more of that of the pole-cat: the ferret 
has the fame difagreeable fmell with that animal. 
Martes guttnre albo. Agricola An. ta, gutture albo. BriJJon qtmd. 178. 
Subter. 485. Gefner quad. 764. Muilela martes. M. pedibus lif- 
Stein-marter Klein quad. 64. fis, corpore fulvo nigricante, gu- 
Martes alias Foyna, Martin or la pallida. Lin. fyfi. 67. Mard. 
Martlet RailJyn. quad. 200. Faun.fuec. No. 15. 
Kuna Rzaczinjk Polon. 222. _ La Fouine de Buffon , vii. 186. 
Muftela pilis in exortu albidis tab. xviii. 
caftaneo colore terminals vefti- Martin Br. Zool. I. 79. 
W. with broad rounded ears: lively eyes: head 
brown, with a tinge of red: body, fides, and legs 
covered with hair, afh colored at the bottoms, bright 
cbefnutin the middle, black at the tips : throat and 
bread: white : belly deep brown : tail full of hair, 
and of a dufky color: feet broad, covered at bot* 
tom with thick down: claws white : length eighteen 
inches : tail ten. 
Inhabits mod: parts of Europe: is a mod: elegant 
lively animal: capable of being tamed: is very 
good-natured, and fportive : lives in woods ; and 
breeds in the hollow of trees : brings from four to 
fix young at a time: deftroys poultry, game, &c. 
and will eat rats, mice, and moles : the fkin and ex¬ 
crements have a mufky fmell: the fur is of feme 
value, and ufedto line the robes of magiftrates. 
* Br. Zool. I. 78. II. 498* 
J? 4 Martas 
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