. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. 130 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. parts bufE-wMte irregularly defined against the brown; feet brown; turns white only in the northern part of its range. The male of this species is much larger than the female. In respect to the general color both weasels are the same. But Elliott Coues makes an emphatic point of distinction between the two species, which is obvious in a comparison of the tails. He says: " This member is both absolutely and relatively shorter in the weasel than in the ermine. ...
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. 130 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. parts bufE-wMte irregularly defined against the brown; feet brown; turns white only in the northern part of its range. The male of this species is much larger than the female. In respect to the general color both weasels are the same. But Elliott Coues makes an emphatic point of distinction between the two species, which is obvious in a comparison of the tails. He says: " This member is both absolutely and relatively shorter in the weasel than in the ermine. ... In the weasel the tail is without the slight- est bushy enlargement, and in most of the specimens I have seen there is no black whatever at the end of the tai!; on the contrary, the end is frequently tipped with a few white hairs.* In other specimens, how- ever, the tail is dusky, while in one from Oregon the tip is quite ; He furthermore says, speak- ing of the skins which he had seen (from British America) of the whole animal, that " they were about six inches long, and also somewhat peculiar in the intensity of a liver-brown ; ISTow Dr. Coues * He evidently refers to the northern or Arctic species called the least weasel {Putorius rixosus), which is not found in the Weasels' tails. 1. P. rixosus; 2. P. cicognani ; 3. P. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938; Underwood, William Lyman, 1864-1929, phot. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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