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Gar A. MEarns, Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A. Bull. Am. Mus. 
Nat. Hist., ili, 2, Art. xvi. The new race recognized is named 
Tamias striatus griseus. 
Description of a New Species of Weazel, and a New Subspecies 
of the Gray Fox, from Arizona. By EDGAR A. MEARNs., Assist- 
ant Surgeon, U.S.A. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., iii, 2, Art. xvii. 
The new forms named are Putorius arizonensis (Arizona Weazel), 
inhabiting the ‘‘mountains and high plateau region of Arizona, 
down tothe lower limit of the forest zone of Pinus ponderosa.”’ 
The species is similar in color to P. longicauda, and is one of the 
smallest weazel. The new variety of fox is named Urocyon virgin- 
ianus scottii (Scott’s Fox), inhabiting Southern California, Arizona 
and western New Mexico, and has been found as far north as Ni- 
casio, Marin County, Cal. Judging from the lucid description it is 
a very distinct variety of the eastern red fox. w. E. B. 
Observations on the North American Badgers, with Especial Ref- 
erence to the Forms found in Arizona, with Description of a New 
Subspecies from Northern California. By EpGar A. MEARNS, As- 
sistant Surgeon, U. S. A. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., iii., 2, Art- 
"xviii. The comparative external and cranial characters of the hith- 
-erto recognized North American badgers, 7axidea americana and 
T. americana berlandieri, are given with considerable fullness, and 
an intimation of a belief that 7: a. ber/andiert is specifically distinct 
from 7. americana. Both of these badgers were found at Fort 
Verde, Arizona, but were always satisfactorily referable to one or 
the other of the two forms, although the vertebral stripe was not 
always continuous in 7. a. berlandieri. The material at the author’s 
disposal was greater than has been previously examined by other 
writers; the two southern badgers are left as at present known while 
a third one is described from northern California (Fort Crook) and 
probably its range extends into Oregon. The subspecies charac- 
terized is Zaxidea americana neglecta. W. E. B. 
Notes on the Otter (Lutra canadensis) and Skunks ( Genera Spi- 
logale and Mephitis) of Arizona. By EDGAR A. Mearns, Assist- 
ant Surgeon, U. S.A. Bull. Am, Mus. Nat. Hist., iii, 2, Art. xix. 
A study of 34 crania of otters from various localities, with three 
obtained in Arizona by the author, who refrains from naming any 
new subspecies in the absence of additional material, particularly 
