The differences in external measurements, between the one female
and the average of the three males are: Total length, 49; length
of tail, 15; length of hind foot, 4.
_Externals._--Longest facial vibrissae brown or white (often both
colors in same specimen) and extending beyond ear; carpal
vibrissae same color as underparts and extending to or beyond
apical pad of fifth digit; hairiness of foot-soles (in summer
pelage) slightly less than shown in figure 19.
_Color._--Upper parts, in summer, near (14 _n_) Brussels Brown,
more blackish and less reddish than tone 4 of Burnt Umber of
Oberthür and Dauthenay, pl. 304; in type near tone 4, pl. 301 of
Oberthür and Dauthenay. Underparts, in summer, Buff Yellow or near
(20 _c_) Amber Yellow. In winter, all white except tip of tail
which is at all times black. Upper parts of uniform color except
for occasional slight darkening of top of head and along
mid-dorsal line of back. Color of underparts extends distally on
posterior sides of forelegs over feet, on medial sides of hind
limbs over antiplantar faces of toes and over proximal two-thirds
of ventral side of tail. Least width of color of underparts
amounting to 43 per cent of greatest width of color of upper
parts, 75 per cent in male from 4 miles northeast of Quesnel,
British Columbia, and 52 (33-66) in four males from Montana. Black
tip of tail in four males from Montana averaging 50 (44-60) mm.
long. Thus averaging approximately as long as hind foot and 33 per
cent of length of tail-vertebrae.
Color not different than in many specimens of _M. f. nevadensis_.
Color comparison with _M. f. longicauda_ has been made in the
account of that subspecies.
_Skull and teeth._--Male (based on 5 adults and 2 subadults from
British Columbia and 4 adults from Montana): See measurements and
plates 16-18. As described in _Mustela frenata longicauda_ except
that: Weight, 5.0 (3.8-6.0) grams; basilar length, 46.7
(43.6-48.8); postorbital breadth in one of nine instances less
than width of basioccipital measured from medial margin of one
foramen lacerum posterior to its opposite; interorbital breadth
more or less than distance between foramen opticum and anterior
margin of tympanic bulla; breadth of rostrum less than length of
tympanic bulla; anterior margin of tympanic bulla as far posterior
to foramen ovale as width of 2-1/2 to 5 upper incisors; length of
tympanic bulla not less than length of lower molar and premolar
tooth-row and shorter than rostrum.
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