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SPILOGALE. 



SAN PEDRO MARTIR SPOTTED SKUNK. 



Type locality. Vallecitos, San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower 

 California, Mexico; 9,000 feet elevation. 



Genl. Char. Similar to S. arizonce in markings, but the white 

 stripes from occiput and cheek are narrower and shorter; broken 

 stripe from fore leg across lower back broader; tail and hind foot 

 shorter. Skull shorter and narrower with narrower rostrum, but 

 braincase wider above auditory meatus. 



Color. Entire body, legs, and feet jet black with white spots and 

 stripes, as in S. arizonce, differing only as mentioned above; tail jet 

 black for basal half, white for the remainder; chin white; white spot 

 on forehead large and broad. 



Measurements. Total length, 395; tail vertebrae, 143; hind foot, 

 44; ear, 25. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 49; Hensel, 45.5; zygomatic 

 width, 33; interorbital constriction, 12; width of rostrum, n; length 

 of nasals, 8; breadth of braincase over auditory meatus, 27; mastoid 

 breadth, 30; palatal length, 19; postpalatal length, 26; length of 

 mandible, angle to alveolus of incisor, 30; height at condyle, 6; at 

 coronoid process, 15. 



FIG. LXXIII. SPILOGALE INTERRUPTA. WHITE-SPOTTED SKUNK. 

 No. 6878 Field Columbian Mus. Coll. 



