MEPHITIS. 



ARIZONA SKUXK. 



1'vpc locality. San Francisco Mountain, Coconino County, Ari- 

 zona. 



Geogr. Distr. Arizona, western Xew Mexico, States of Sonora, 

 ami Chihuahua south in the Sierra Madre in latter state; Lower Cali- 

 fornia, Mexico. 



989. Mephitis occidentalis Baird. 



M, -philis occidentalis Baird, N. Am. Mamm., 1857, p. 194. Elliot, 

 Syn. X. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., n, 1904, p. 324. Zool. 

 Ser. 

 CALIFORNIA SKUNK. 



Type locality. Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. 

 Geogr. Distr. Northern and central California; vicinity of Mon- 

 terey Bay northward, west of the Sierra and Cascades to the Willa- 

 mette Valley, Oregon. 



a. .}/('/>// i /is occ'nli'iitiil IK x/tixxigi-ntld (Bangs). 



Mephitis spissigrada Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xu, 1898, 

 p. 31. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., n, 1901, 

 p. 326. Zool. Ser. 



Mephitis jcctidcnta Elliot, Pub. Field Columb. Mus., i, 1899, p. 

 269. Zool. Ser. Id. Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 

 n, 1901, p. 326. Zool. Ser. 

 PUGET SOUND SKUNK. 



Type locality. Sumas, British Columbia, Canada. 

 Geogr. Distr. Shores of Puget Sound and coast region of Wash- 

 ington and northern Oregon. 



h. .Mi-fili'ifix nrrit/ritlfi/ix notdtii (Howcll). 



Chincha occidentalis uotala Howcll, N. Am. Faun., No. 20, 1901, 



p. 36. 

 CASCADE SKUNK. 



T-vpc locality. Trout Lake, Mount Adams, Skamania County, 

 Washington. 



Geogr. Distr. Southern Washington and northern Oregon, east 

 of the Cascades. 



'Genl. ('liar. Similar to M. occidentalis, but tail shorter; body 

 stripes narrow, and separated for their entire length. Skull: nasals 

 short, lower carnassial broad; palate without notch. 



Color. Black; white stripes narrow, not confluent, but usually 

 ioined to the nape; tail Mark exteriorly. 



.1/r,/.s/(;rmc;//.x. Total length, average of 3 ad., 633; tail vertebrae, 

 249; hind tool . 76. 



