. Synopsis of the weasels of North America [microform]. Weasels; Mammals; Belettes; Mammifères. 'jcME,i896.] SYNOPSIS OF THE WEASELS OF NORTH AMERICA. 11 darker form, P. strmtori. In tlie Fnited States it is common in New England and New York, and in the tbrest-(!overed parts of Minnesota. It i>robably o(!cnrs also in northern Micihigan and AViscousin. ' General characters.—Size small; tail slender and rather short; (tolor of under i)arts covering toes and inner sides of hoth fore and hind feet; color of upper parts never encroaching on belly, but ending along a straight line. Color.—l'pi)e
. Synopsis of the weasels of North America [microform]. Weasels; Mammals; Belettes; Mammifères. 'jcME,i896.] SYNOPSIS OF THE WEASELS OF NORTH AMERICA. 11 darker form, P. strmtori. In tlie Fnited States it is common in New England and New York, and in the tbrest-(!overed parts of Minnesota. It i>robably o(!cnrs also in northern Micihigan and AViscousin. ' General characters.—Size small; tail slender and rather short; (tolor of under i)arts covering toes and inner sides of hoth fore and hind feet; color of upper parts never encroaching on belly, but ending along a straight line. Color.—l'pi)er parts in summer pelage: uniform dark brown, hardly darker on head; end of tail blackish; no dark spot behind coiners of month; under parts, usually including upper lip, white, more or less tinged with yellow. In iri titer pelage: jiurc white with a strong yellow- ish tinge on rump, tail, and under i)arts; end of tail black. Cranial characters.—Skull small, light, narrow, and elongated with- out marked postorbital processes, and only a slight ]>ostorbital constric- tion; xygonuita narrow, and not bowed outward; brain case elongate and subcylindric; audital bulhe small, narrow, and subcylindric, almost continuous anteriorly (except in old age) with the greatly inflated squamosals; palate mirrow; the tooth rows more nearly i)arallel than in the other spe cies; skull of female similar to that of male, but smaller. Contrasted with richardsoui, the skull of cieof/nani is smaller, the audital bulhe deci<l. KJ-IT, 1829. (In part: spociineii from Fort Franklin, (Jreut IJcar Lake. Not M. ( Linn.) 1838. Mimteht richarthoui lionap.: Charlcsworth's Mag. Nat. Hist., \u\. XI, p. 38, 1838. (hasiid on liiclianlsson's Hpeoinien from (iroat Mcar Lak<<). 1839. I'litoritiH richardxoiti Rich.: Zool. Heechey's Voyaji;t! uflSlosboni, Mammalia, 10*, 1839. 18!HJ. Itangci: Proc. Hiol. Soc. Washn., X, pp. 1-24, Fob. 2ri, 189(J. (In part.) Type locality.—Fort Franklin, Great B
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