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Zobela Agricola An. Suker. 485. fiffis, corpore obfcure fulvo, Fron- * 5 ^' S A5LS* 
Muftela Sobella Gefner quad. 768. te exalbida, gutture cinereo. Lin, 
Muftela Zibellina, the Sable. Rail JyJl. 68. 
jyn. quad, 201. Klein quad. 64. Muftela Zibellina Nov. Com. Pe~ 
'Muftela Zibellina, Arijhteli Sa- troJ>. v. 330. tab. vi. 
the:in?, Nipbo cebalus, Alciato Martes Zibellina. Muftela ob- 
Mus'Samarticus et fcytkicus. fcure fulvo, gutture cinereo Brif- 
, CharIcion Ex. 20. fon quad. 180. 
Muftela Zibellina. M. pedibus La Zibeline deBuffon, xiii. 309, 
W. with long whifkers : rounded ears : large feet: 
white claws: long and buihy tail : color of the hair 
black at the tips, cinereous at the bottom : chin ci¬ 
nereous : the edges oi the ears yellowifh : fometimes 
the hair has a tawny call, for in fpring, after flied- 
ding the coat, the color varies: there are inftances 
of their being found of a fnowy whitenefs*: the 
ufual length, from nofe to tail, is about eighteen 
inches i the tail twelve. 
Inhabits Siberia , Kamtfchatka , and fome of the 
Kuriljki illes, which lie between Kamtfchatka , and 
Japan: a few are alfo found in Lapland**. 
Sables live in holes in the earth, or beneath the 
roots of trees : fometimes, like the martin, form 
nefts in*the trees, and will ikip with great agility 
from one to the other : are very lively, and much in 
motion during night: deep much in the day : one 
that was kept tame, would, on fight of a cat, fit 
up on its hind legs: excrements mod excefiiively 
foetid: prey, during fummer, on ermines, weefels, 
and fquirrels, but above all on hares y in winter, on 
* Strablenberg lift. Kitffia, 442. 
** Scheffer Lapl. 136. 
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