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The Stoat's Winter Pelage

Nature volume 111, page 220 (1923)Cite this article

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A FRIENDLY stoat, which has made our flower-garden and rockery his hunting-ground for mice and voles during the last three years, has donned his winter livery of ermine, and become very conspicuous—a snow-white little athlete—amid the greenery of the present exceedingly green winter.

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MAXWELL, H. The Stoat's Winter Pelage. Nature 111, 220 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111220a0

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