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more of a reddish yellow tint. The other differences, as stated, consist in the smaller feet 
more fully furred beneath, more acute ears, shorter tail, &c. 
Many additional specimens of this species have been received from California since the pre¬ 
ceding article was written, and although some of them indicate an approximation to P. frenatus, 
yet they all admit of being readily separated. No. 1352, from San Francisco, has the anterior 
portion of the head, as far back as the occiput, darker than the rest of the body, hut it is far 
from being black, nor does it extend hack of the ears. The frontal blotch is yellowish white, 
not pure white, and the lateral one is truncated behind, as described. The tail is not very 
long. All the other specimens have even less brown on the head, and the yellow of the face is 
brighter. The species thus far appears to he confined to the California coast. 
List of specimens. 
PUTORIUS YISON. 
Common Mink. 
“Muslela lutreola, Forster, Philos. Trans. LXII, 371.” 
“ Sabine, in Franklin’s Narr. 1823, 652.” 
Mustela vison, Brisson, Quad. 1756, 246. 
Schreber, Saugt. Ill, 1778, 463; tab cxxvii/? 
Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 94. 
Cuvier, R. Anim. I, 1817. 
Harlan, Fauna Americana, 1825, 63. 
Maxim. Reise I, 1839, 213. 
Muslela ( Maries ) vison, Desm. Mamm. I, 1820, 183. 
Griff. Cuv. V, 1827, 124. 
Mustela ( Pulorius ) vison, Rich. F. B. A. I, 1829, 48. 
Mustela ( Lutreola ) vison, Wagner, Suppl. Schreb. II, 1841, 241."' 
Lutra vison, Shaw, Gen. Zool. I, 1800, 448. (Vison of Buffon.) 
Putorius vison , Gapper, Zool. Jour. V, 1830, 202. 
Dekay, N. Y. Zool. I, 1842, 37 ; pi. xi, f. 1. 
Aud. & Bach. N. A. Quad. I, 1849, 250 ; pi. xxxiii. 
Mustela canadensis, 1 Erxleben, Syst. Anim. I, 1777, 455. 
Mustela canadensis, var. Id vison, Bodd/T.rt, Elenchus Anim. I, 1784, 86, (from Buffon.) 
Mustela winingus, Barton, Am. Phil. Trans. VI, 1809, 70. (Mink of St. Louis ; no description.) 
Mustela minx, Ord, Guthrie’s Geog. 2d Am. ed. II, 1815, 291, 298. 
Mustela lutreocephala, Harlan, F. A. 1825, 63. 
?Mustela rufa, Ham. Smith, in Jard. Nat. Lib. Mamm. XIII, 1842, 189, (perhaps pine marten.) 
Vison, Buff. Hist. Anim. XIII, 1765, 308 ; pi. xliii. (This description, with those of Brigpon and Pennant, under the 
same name, all taken from the same specimen.) 
1 See preceding remarks on the history of Mustela pennanlii, page 151. 
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