Type locality. Hudson Bay. 



Geogr. Distr. Hudson Bay. north latitude 58° in British North 

 America, and in the United States from Wisconsin south to Okla- 

 homa Territory, west to Rocky Mountains. Formerly as far east as 

 Ohio. 



Genl. Char. Body stout, depressed; tail short; fore claws long; 

 occipital region of skull very wide, lambdoidal crest greatly devel- 

 oped, sagittal but slightly. 



Color. Head hoary brown, sometimes grayish; snout and patch 

 behind the ears black. Line from nose to nape white. Cheeks 

 white, legs black. 



Measurements. Head and body, about 340; tail vertebra>, 140. 



a.^neglecta [Taxidia], Mearns, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y., 

 1891, p. 250. 



Type locality. Fort Crook, northern California. 



Geogr. Distr. California. 



Genl. Char. Smaller than F. americana. tail longer. Skull nar- 

 rower, more restricted in the interorbital region, bony palate slightly 

 longer, bulla- considerably larger. 



Color. Dark markings of head more brownish than T. americana, 

 light areas yellowish instead of whitish; feet and lower part of legs 

 dark brown instead of glossy black; hairs of upper surface ochraceous 

 buff banded subbasally with grayish drab, subspirally with black, and 

 broadly tipped with yellowish gray; tail tawny ochraceous, the hair 

 pointed with grayish above except at the tip, which is dark brown; 

 end of chin light brown; under side of head and neck yellowish clay- 

 color; chest and sides of abdomen tawny ochraceous, creamy white 

 in the middle of the abdomen, claws horn color. 



Measurements. Skull: occipital condyle to front of premaxillae, 

 118; basilar length of Hensel, 106; occipito-nasal length, loi; inter- 

 zygomatic breadth, 75; intermastoid breadth, 71; across postorbital 

 processes, 31 ; alveolar rim of incisors to postpalatal notch, 59. 5; post- 

 palatal notch to foramen magnum, 46; height of cranium at plane of 

 audital meatus, 40; length of pterygoid fossa, 13. (Mearns.) 



b.—berlandieri. [Taxidra), Baird, Mam. N. Am., 1857, p. 205. 



Type locality. Llano, Estacado, Texas. 



Geogr. Distr. Texas, Oklahoma Territory, Arizona, and New 

 Mexico to Mexico. 



Genl. Char. A conspicuous white stripe from nose along entire 

 body to the tail. 



Color. Reddish gray; blackish brown on head, and same color 

 on neck and back along the median "white stripe, the hairs tipped with 



