Clafs I. 
QUADRUPEDS. 
The whole upper part of the body, the head, 
tail, legs, and feet are of a very pale tawny 
brown. The whole under fide of the body 
from the chin to the tail is white. 
This, like the reft of the kind, is very de¬ 
finitive to young birds, poultry, and young 
rabbets $ and are belides great devourers of 
eggs. It does not eat its prey on the place, 
but after killing it, by one bite near the head, 
carries it off to its young, or its retreat. It 
is a remarkably ative animal, and will run 
up the fides of walls with fuch facility, that 
fcarce any place is fecure from it $ and its 
body is fo fmall, that there is fcarce any hole 
but what is pervious to it. This fpecies is 
much more domeftic than the others fre¬ 
quenting outhoufes, barns, and grainanes 
where, to make as it were fome atonement for 
its depredations among our tame fowl, it foon 
clears its haunts from rats and mice, being 
infinitely more an enemy to them than the 
cat itfelf. It brings five or fix young at a 
time : its fkin and excrements are moft in¬ 
tolerably fetid. 
SPECIES V. 
JFhen brown , the STOAT. 
JFhen white , the ERMINE. 
Muftela Candida, animal ermine 
un aRaii Jyn. quad- 198. 
Mort. Northampt. 442. 
Meyer’s an. a. Tab. 23, 24. 
Muftela hieme alba, asftate fupra 
rutila infra alba, caudae apice 
nigro. Brijfon quad. 243. 
Buffon. 7, 240. Tab- 29. Fig- 2. 
Tab. 31. Fig. 1. 
Gefner quad. 753. 
Muftela erminea. M plantis fiffis, 
caudae apice atro. Lin.fyft. 
46. Faun. fuec. 9. 
Pontop- Norway. Part- 2. p. 25. 
German , Hermelin 
Smdijlo , Hermelin, Lekatt 
Britijh , Carlwm 
French , Hermine, Rofelet 
Italian , Armellino 
Spa nip, Armino, Armelina. 
AMES 
Dutch , Armnn 
Portug , 
H E length of the float to the ori¬ 
gin of the tail, is ten inches : that 
of the tail is five inches and a half. 
The colors bear fo near a refemblance to 
thofe of the weefel, as to caufe them to be 
confounded together by the generality of 
common obfervers ; the weefel being ufually 
miftaken for a fmall float: but thefe animals 
have evident and invariable fpecific differences, 
by which they may be eafily known. Firft, 
by the fize; the weefel being ever lefs than the 
float $ fecondly, the tail of the latter is al¬ 
ways tipt with black, is longer in proportion 
to the bulk of the animal, and more hairy ; 
whereas the tail of the weefel is fhorter, and 
of the fame color with the body : thirdly. 
