TAXIDEA. 



Body stout, strong, depressed; tail short; upper carnassial 

 largest in proportion to other teeth; upper molar triangular, the apex 

 turned backward; fore claws very large, strong. Skull wedge-shaped, 

 widest posteriorly. 



Fig. 63. Taxidea americana. 

 ; Field Columbian Museum Coll. H Nat. size. 



478. americana. (A/c/es), Bodd. Elench. Anim., 1787, i, p. 136. 

 labradoria, Gmel. Syst. Nat., 1788, i, p. 102. 

 jeffersoni, Harlan, Faun. Am., 1825, p. 309. 



