Part 11

1896. =alascensis= (Putorius richardsonii) Merriam [= Mustela erminea alascensis], N. Amer. Fauna, 11:12, June 30, 1896, with type locality at Juneau, Alaska, has been used for the ermine of southeastern Alaska ever since it was proposed. In 1944 separate subspecific rank was accorded ermines on several of the islands of southeastern Alaska which proportionately restricted the range assigned to alascensis.

1896. =streatori= (Putorius) Merriam [= Mustela erminea streatori], N. Amer. Fauna, 11:13, June 30, 1896, applies to the ermine of the Pacific Coast from Puget Sound, Washington, south nearly to the Golden Gate of California.

1896. =arcticus= (Putorius) Merriam [= Mustela erminea arctica], N. Amer. Fauna, 11:15, June 30, 1896. Ever since it was proposed, this name has been applied to the subspecies of ermine of Alaska and the northern parts of Canada.

1896. =kadiacensis= ([Putorius arcticus]) Merriam [= Mustela erminea kadiacensis], N. Amer. Fauna, 11:16, June 30, 1896, is a valid name applied to the ermine of Kodiak Island, Alaska.

1896. =washingtoni= (Putorius) Merriam [= Mustela frenata washingtoni], N. Amer. Fauna 11:18, June 30, 1896, applies to the long-tailed weasel of the southern Cascades of Washington and the northern Cascades of Oregon.

1896. =saturatus= (Putorius) Merriam [= Mustela frenata saturata], N. Amer. Fauna, 11:21, June 30, 1896, was little used until 1936 but applies to long-tailed weasel of limited region in northern California and southern Oregon.

1896. =alleni= (Putorius) Merriam [= Mustela frenata alleni], N. Amer. Fauna, 11:24, June 30, 1896, applies to weasel of Black Hills region.

1896. =oregonensis= (Putorius xanthogenys) Merriam [= Mustela frenata oregonensis], N. Amer. Fauna, 11:25, June 30, 1896, applies to long-tailed weasel of parts of western Oregon and northern California.

1896. =goldmani= (Putorius frenatus) Merriam [= Mustela frenata goldmani], N. Amer. Fauna, 11:28, June 30, 1896, applies to the long-tailed weasel of Chiapas, and parts of Guatemala and Salvador.

1896. =leucoparia= (Putorius frenatus) Merriam [= Mustela frenata leucoparia], N. Amer. Fauna, 11:29, June 30, 1896, applies to the long-tailed weasel of Michoacán and Nayarit.

1896. =tropicalis= (Putorius) Merriam [= Mustela frenata tropicalis], N. Amer. Fauna, 11:30, June 30, 1896, applies to the long-tailed weasel of the Tropical Life-zone of Veracruz.

1896. =spadix= (Putorius longicaudus) Bangs [= Mustela frenata spadix], Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 10:8, February 25, 1896, applies to the long-tailed weasel of Minnesota and adjoining areas.

1896. =rixosus= (Putorius) Bangs [= Mustela rixosa rixosa], Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 10:21, February 25, 1896, applies to the least weasel of Saskatchewan and adjoining areas and as the first available name for the species has been used as the specific name for the species in America since 1896.

1897. =paraensis= (Putorius (Mustela) braziliensis) Goeldi [= Mustela africana africana], Zool. Jahrb., abt. f. systematik, geogr. u. biol., 10:560, pl. 21, September 15, 1897, a synonym for the weasel of the lower Amazon area.

1898. =neomexicanus= (Putorius frenatus) Barber and Cockerell [= Mustela frenata neomexicana], Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 188, May 3, 1898, applies to the long-tailed weasel of New Mexico, Arizona, Durango and adjoining areas.

1898. =haidarum= (Putorius) Preble [= Mustela erminea haidarum], Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 12:169, August 10, 1898, applies to the ermine of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia.

1899. =notius= (Putorius noveboracensis) Bangs [= Mustela frenata noveboracensis], Proc. New England Zoöl. Club, 1:53, June 9, 1899, was applied to the long-tailed weasel of the Carolinas until 1936 since which time it has been regarded as a synonym of noveboracensis.

1899. =occisor= (Putorius) Bangs [= Mustela frenata occisor], Proc. New England Zoöl. Club, 1:54, June 9, 1899, applies to the long-tailed weasel of central and northern Maine. Until 1936, occisor was ordinarily used as the name of a full species but since then has been arranged as a subspecific name under Mustela frenata.

1899. =mundus= (Putorius xanthogenys) Bangs [= Mustela frenata munda], Proc. New England Zoöl. Club, 1:56, June 9, 1899, is now applied, and generally has been since 1899, to the long-tailed weasel of the coastal district of California north of San Francisco Bay.

1899. =muricus= (Putorius (Arctogale)) Bangs [= Mustela erminea muricus], Proc. New England Zoöl. Club, 1:71, July 31, 1899, applies to the diminutive ermine, often erroneously designated least weasel, of the western United States.

1899. =oribasus= (Putorius (Arctogale) longicauda) Bangs [= Mustela frenata oribasus], Proc. New England Zoöl. Club, 1:81, December 27, 1899, applies to the long-tailed weasel of the Rocky Mountains northward from Yellowstone National Park.

1900. =eskimo= (Putorius rixosus) Stone [= Mustela rixosa eskimo], Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1900:44, March 24, 1900, is applied to the least weasel of Alaska and adjacent parts of boreal North America.

1901. =allegheniensis= (Putorius) Rhoads [= Mustela rixosa allegheniensis], Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1900:75, March 25, 1901, applies to the least weasel of the eastern United States.

1902. =perdus= (Putorius tropicalis) Merriam [= Mustela frenata perda], Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 15:67, March 22, 1902, applies to the long-tailed weasel of the Lower Tropical Life-zone from southern Veracruz into Guatemala.

1903. =microtis= (Putorius) Allen [= Mustela erminea richardsonii], Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19:563, October 10, 1903, is a name applied to an individual ermine of small size from Shesley, British Columbia, which Allen thought was specifically distinct from the ermine of the Hudsonian Life-zone and adjacent territory. Now the name is arranged as a synonym of richardsonii.

1904. =audax= (Putorius) Barrett-Hamilton [= Mustela erminea arctica], Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 13:392, May, 1904. In the original description the type locality, Discovery Bay, was erroneously stated to be in Greenland and the name audax until 1945 was applied to the kind of weasel occurring in northern Greenland whereas the type specimen was taken instead in northern Ellesmere Island and because the weasel there is subspecifically indistinguishable from ermines from farther west, audax is a synonym of Putorius arcticus.

1904. =imperii= (Putorius arcticus) Barrett-Hamilton [= Mustela erminea richardsonii], Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 13:392, May, 1904, based on an animal from Fort Simpson, Mackenzie, Canada, proves to be inseparable from richardsonii which has priority.

1904. =polaris= (Putorius arcticus) Barrett-Hamilton [= Mustela erminea polaris], Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 13:393, May, 1904, is the name used for the ermine of eastern Greenland and since 1945 has been used for the weasel of Greenland as a whole.