=Mustela erminea haidarum= (Preble)
Ermine
Plates 5, 6, 7, 11, 12 and 13
_Putorius haidarum_ Preble, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 12:169,
August 10, 1898.
_Mustela haidarum_, Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull., 79:97, December
31, 1912.
_Mustela erminea haidarum_, Hall, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
57:38, June 28, 1944; Hall, Journ. Mamm., 26:181, July 19, 1945.
_Type._--Male, adult, skull, skeleton and skin; no. 94430, U. S.
Nat. Mus., Biol. Surv. Coll.; Massett, Queen Charlotte Islands,
British Columbia; March 17, 1898; obtained by J. H. Keen; original
no. 1800x.
The skull is unbroken and complete except for osseous tissue
destroyed in the region of each postorbital process; this is the
result of infestation of the frontal sinuses by parasites. The
skeleton is complete down to the distal ends of the tibiae; the
more distal bones are in the skin. The first, right, upper incisor
is missing. Otherwise the teeth all are present and entire.
The skin is in the white, winter pelage but the new under fur is
visible along the back and on the head although mostly covered
with white hair.
_Range._--Queen Charlotte Islands. See figure 25, page 95.
_Characters for ready recognition._--Differs from _M. e. celenda_
in chest white (not mostly covered by brown patch), proximal
two-thirds of under side of tail colored like underparts instead
of upper parts, in males basilar length less than 38.2; from _M.
e. seclusa_, in male, in zygomatic breadth less than distance
between last upper molar and jugular foramen; from _M. e.
richardsonii_ and _alascensis_, in both sexes, in proximal
two-thirds of under side of tail colored like underparts instead
of upper parts, interorbital breadth not less than distance from
glenoid fossa to posterior margin of external auditory meatus;
from _M. e. anguinae_ and _fallenda_, in both sexes, in
light-colored underparts more than half the width of dark-colored
upper parts, proximal two-thirds of under surface of tail colored
like underparts instead of upper parts, interorbital breadth equal
to or more than distance between glenoid fossa and posterior
margin of external auditory meatus.
_Description.--Size._--Male: Two adults, U.S.N.M., no. 100622,
from Cumsheva Inlet, and Amer. Mus. N. H., no. 37411, and the
type, measure, respectively, as follows: Total length, 283, 290,
275; length of tail, 70, 75, 60; length of hind foot, 39, 40, 37.
Female: Corresponding measurements of an adult, no. 100624, and a
young individual, no. 100623, each from Cumsheva Inlet, are: 252,
250; 63, 61; 31, 32.
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