4ii4 POTOS. TAX1DEA. 



Genus 122. 1'otos. Kinkajniis. 



Potos Cuv. & Geoff., Meth. Mamm., in Mag. Encyl., n, 1795, p. 187. 

 Type r/rr/Ti; caudivolvula Schreber. 

 olcf>ics lllig., Prodr. Syst. Mamm. et AY., iSn, p. 127. 



1'nliix jlnnix n-fi-fiix Thomas. 



Potos flams aztecns Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th Ser., ix, 

 1902, pp. 266, 268, desc. Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & \V. 

 Indies, F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. n, 1904, p. 500, figs. (Potos 

 flams) 92 and LXIX. Zool. Ser. 



AZTEC KIXKA.IOU. Miirtica in Mexico; Micoleon in Guatemala. 

 Type locality. Atoyca, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 

 Geogr. Distr. Central America, south to Guatemala. 



x jlttrnx i-lii i'i<iui'iix! x Allen. 

 Potos flams iJiiriijiiensis Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Xat. Hist. N. Y., 

 1904, p. 72. Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 

 F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. n, 1904, p. 501. Zool. Ser. 

 CHIRIQUI KIXKA.IOU. 



Type locality. Boqueron, Chiriqui, Panama. 

 Geogr. Distr. Panama. Range unknown. 



Family VI. JIustHiihr. ISml^ors. Weasels. Otter*. ete. 



Subfamily I. Melinse. 



Genus 123. Taxidca. Badgers. 



Taxidea Storr, Prodr. Meth. Mamm., 1780, p. 34. Type I'rsns 1a.\ns 

 Schrc-1 icr. 



982. Taxidea taxus (Schreber). 



Ursus lin'its Schreb., S;iugth., in, 1778, p. 520. 



Meles ! i\'its var. i>. timcn'cauns B;>dd., I-'lench. Anim.. i, 17X5. 



p. 136. 



Ursus liihriiiliirtii Gnu-l.. Syst. Nat., i, 1788, p. 102. 

 Meles jeffersoni Marl., Faun. Am., 1825, p. 301;. 

 /fv/i/ri/ iinicridiihi IClliot, Syn. X. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 



n. i <;oi , p. 320, fig. 03. /,< ' il. Ser. 



*/'n/r.\ /l,i;'it.\ in c. ;l,iln\ (Martin). \v!ii.-1i 'I'lmtnas has ivstrii-tr 1 to ( '"!< >nil >i;i 

 ami Costa Rica, lias ln-cn reconsidered 1'V Alli'n, \vln> assigns tin- nainr >n, 

 t<> tin- form loinul in ea t- rn Coloinliia. 



