Fig. 49. Fiber zibethicus. 

 No. 132 Field Columbian Museum Coll. Nat. size. Spec. Blindn 



1 River. N-. W. T. 



315. zibethicus. [Castor), Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1766, p. 79. 



americana, Tiedem. Zool., I, p. 481. 



osoyoozensis. Lord, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1864, p. 95. 



Type locality. Eastern Canada. 



Geogr. Distr. From Labrador to the Gulf States (excepting the 

 Dismal Swamp, Virginia, possibly) and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 

 north of the Gulf States and Arizona. 



Genl. Char. Size large, color dark, characters those of the genus. 

 Tail about equal to body without head. 



