W E E S E L, 
Chinche Feuillee obf. Peru , 1714, Enfant du DIable, Bete puante, 267, Skvns* 
p. 272. Charlevoix Nowy. France, v. ig6. 
Skunk, Filkatta, Kalms voy. For- Le Chinche de Buffon, xiii, 294, 
Jlers Fr. I. 273. tab. ii. Joffielyn s tab. xxxix. 
voy. 85. 
W. with fhort rounded ears : black cheeks : a white 
flripe from the nofe, between the ears, to the back : 
upper part of the neck, and the whole back, white ; 
divided at the bottom by a black line, commencing 
at the tail and palling a little way up the back : belly 
and legs black : tail very full of long coarfe hair; 
generally black, fometimes tipt with white: that 
figured by M. de Buff on entirely white : nails on all 
the feet, very long, like thofe on the fore-feet of a, 
badger : rather lefs than the former. 
Inhabits Peru , and N. America , as far as Canada: 
of the fame manners and flench with the others. 
Annas of the Indians, Zorrinas of Mariputa, Mafutiliqui, Gumilla 268. Zor li¬ 
the Spaniards, GarcilaJJo delaVe- Orenoque, III. 240. la, 
33 u 
W. with the back and fides marked with fhort 
flripes of black and white; the lafl tinged with 
yellow: tail long and bufhy ; part white, part 
black: legs and belly black: lefs than the pre¬ 
ceding 
• * The Weefel, called by the Ruffians Perewiajka, and the Poles , 
Przenviajha, or the Girdled Weefel, feems allied to thefe. It is, 
fays Rzacyzinjki, lefs than a Pole-cat, of a whitifh color, rayed tranf- 
verfly with yellowifh red : it burrows and lives in the woods: its 
ikin is a beautifull fur. Auft. hijl. Polon. 328. 
Inhabits 
