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U. 8. P, R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS-ZOOLOGY-GENERAL REPORT. 
List of specimens. 
Catalog’e 
number. 
Locality. 
When 
collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Original 
number. 
Nature of spe- 
. 
cimen. 
Head and 
body. 
Tail, 
verteb. 
To end of 
hairs. 
1015 
Fort Dalles, O. T. 
1855. 
Dr. George Suckley. 
.do.... 
Hunter’s skin . 
24 
14 
171 
16 
1009 
53 
■_do. 
24 
12 
1008 
Hunter’s skin, 
1477 
Steilacoom, W. T ... 
_ __do 
do 
45 
j head wanting. 
30 
18 
21 
2000 
2246 
Saranac Lake, N. Y_ 
M. Baker_...... 
3080 
Essex county, N. Y_ 
Dr. S. E. Hale. 
_do_ 
1073 
Madrid, N. Y. 
Bone Cave, Carlisle, Pa.. 
E. A. Dayton_ 
1848 
S. F. Baird_ 
Skull, fossil 
. • > 1 , 
MUSTELA AMERICANA, Turton. 
American Sable; Pine Marten. 
Mustela americanus, Turtons Linnaeus, I, 1806, 60. 
Mustela vulpina, Rafinesque, Am. J. Sc. I, 1819, 82. (From Upper Mo. Specimen in N. Y. Lyceum.) 
Fischer, Synopsis, 1829, 215. 
Mustela leucopus, Kuhl. Beitrage, 1820, 74. 
Fischer, Syn. 1829, 216. 
Mustela martes, Jos. Sabine, Zool. App. to Narr. Franklin’s Journey, 1823, 651. 
Harlan, Fauna Americana, 1825, 67. 
Rich, F. Bor. Am. I, 1829, 51. 
Gapper, Zool. Jour. V, 1830, 203. 
Godman, Am. N. H. 1, 1831, 200. 
Dekay, N. Y. Zool. I, 1842, 32 ; pi. xi. f. 2 ; pi. six. f. 2, (skull.) 
Add. & Bach. N. A. Quad. Ill, 1853, 176; pi. cxxxviii, (L. Huron.) 
Mustela huro, F. Cuv. Diet, des Sc. Nat. XXIX, 1823, 256.— Ib. Suppl. Buff. Mam. I, 1831, 221. 
Fischer, Syn. 1829, 217. 
Mustela zibellina, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. XIV, 57-68.— Ib. Zool. Rosso-As. I, 1831, 84. 
Godman, Am. N. H. I, 1831, 208. 
Mustela zibellina, var. americana, Brandt Beitrage, Saugethiere Russland, 1855, 16; tab. iii, f. 10. 
Pine Marten, Pennant, Hist. Quad. 1781, No. 200.— Ib. Arctic Zool. I, 1784, 76. (From sp. in Leverian Mus.) 
g p> 0 H ._Legs and tail blackish. General color reddish yellow, clouded with black; above becoming lighter towards the 
head, which is sometimes white. A broad yellowish patch on the throat, widening below so as to touch the legs. Central line 
of belly sometimes yellowish. Tail vertebrae, about g the head and body. Outstretched hind feet reach about to the middle of 
the tail with the hairs. Feet densely furred. 
Body stouter than in the ermine weasels, though less bulky than in Mi pennantii. Head 
somewhat depressed, acute, and broader than might he looked for with so lengthened a skull. 
The ears are large and thickened ; both sides densely coated with short velvety hairs, overlaid 
by stiff longer ones, which do not extend to the margins of the ears. The vertebras of the tail 
are about half as long as the body, exclusive of the head ; the entire tail nearly two-thirds the 
length of head and body. The outstretched hind feet reach hut little more than half way to the 
tip of the tail. The legs are rather short and robust; the feet densely coated with fur; the 
