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from the same locality is perplexing and many specimens occur, espe- 

 cially in Wisconsin, which appear to be intergrades. 



The habits of this form are apparently similar to those of the North- 

 ern or Hudsonian Skunk which has already been described. 



Genus SPILOGALE Gray. 



Spilogale Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 150. Type Mephitis 



inter rupta Rafmesque. 



Size smaller than Mephitis; skull somewhat flattened; audital 

 bullas inflated ; auditory meatus tubular and directed obliquely forward ; 

 zygomata prominently arched, the highest point at the middle; back 

 with four white stripes. 



Dental formula: I. ^ C. - , Pm. ^ ^> M. - -=34. 

 3-3 i-i 3-3 2-2 



Spilogale putorius (LINN.). 

 ALLEGHENIAN SPOTTED SKUNK. CIVET CAT. 



Viverra putorius LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., X ed., I, 1758, p. 44. 



Spilogale putorius HOWELL, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 26, 1906, p. 15 (Tennessee, etc.). 



Ib., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXIII, 1910, p. 32 (Illinois, Kentucky). 

 Type locality South Carolina. 



Distribution From Virginia to Georgia in the interior, and westward 

 to eastern Arkansas and Missouri, north to western Kentucky, 

 southern Illinois and southern Indiana; exact western limits of 

 range unknown. 



Description General color black and white ; four white stripes on the 

 back, which are broken on the lower back and appear as irregular 



spots or bands; a 

 white patch on the 

 forehead ; end of 

 tail white. 



Measurements Total 

 length, 18.50 to 22 



Spilogale putorius. ln - (47 ^O 558 



mm.) ; tail verte- 

 bras, 7.50 to 8.70 in. (190.5 to 220 mm.); hind foot, about 2 in. 

 (46 to 51 mm.). 



This species is claimed to occur in southern Illinois. Howell states: 

 "They are reported to be fairly common at Golconda, Illinois;" and 

 Hahn includes it in his mammals of Indiana as occurring in Knox 

 County. Hunters inform me that there are two kinds of Skunks in 



