4 The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland
: Stoat and the weasel, and that the latter are often killed but not eaten by the
mer; but I can obtain no satisfactory proof of this.
Charles St. John thus describes Stoat hunting in Scotland: 1 * My rabbit beagles
i him for a long time, full cry in some rough ground. Whenever the Stoat
nt into a rabbit-hole I turned him out with a ferret, in this way running him
until I killed him.’ For many years ;
have hunted this animal in Cork, and t
the sport. The hounds used are a cros
foxhound, about 15 or 16 inches in hei
Sportsman'9 says of the - • a A v
the open like a fox, swim and dive like
climb the highest tree with more agiiit
times seen him do. On a good 't enting
(Stoat) in about twenty or chy'fy ini mil
extensive; but if scent is no* good, and
stands up before them for four or five 1
A curious variety of the Stoat, which
noticed in Ireland and recorded in the ‘ Fi
Mr. Hart ing records4 a perfectly whit
dark brown, which was shot at Llandovery
specimen is now in the Natural History M
Mr. J . Whitaker, of Rswtworth, informs
ick of hounds called ‘ weasel hounds ’
are many accounts in Irish papers of
'tween the Welsh beagle and the Irish
In an account before me ‘ The Irish
erful little animal, which can run in
otter, double and twist like a hare, anti
an a cat, all of which we have many
>■ the hounds will hunt up a “ weasel”
if the country is open and the fields
re is much cover, the weasel generally
s, and beats them in the end.’
was said to be black and white, was
Court,
me that
Putorius kibemkw, Ü
129, April 1895.
Local Names.—Masog
Barrett-Hi PP- 124-
scoverers of this sub-species,® the characters
nineus, the male scarcely exceeding in size
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THE STOAT (A U T U M ® WINTER AND IRISH STOAT).