American marten or pine weasel, Martes americana 68, and stoat or Eurasian ermine, Mustela erminea, in different seasonal pelage as weasel 69, roselet 70, and ermine 71. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Jacques de Seve from James Smith Barr’s edition of Comte Buffon’s Natural History, A Theory of the Earth, General History of Man, Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, T. Gillet, H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, London, 1807.

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