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Stoat (Mustela erminea), member of the weasel family, 1828. The stoat in its white winter coat with black tail tip (the source of the fur Ermine), of animals in the colder parts of its range (Asia, Northern America and Europe). The summer coat is reddish brown with white underparts. From British Quadrupeds by William MacGillivray, one of the volumes in William Jardine's Naturalist's Library series. (Edinburgh, 1828).