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the terminal portion the white covers the entire width of the tail, ex- 

 tending beyond blunt black tip. 



Mt-asurements. Total length, nose to end of hairs of tail, 770; 

 tail to end of hairs, 300: hind foot, 70. (Skin.) Skull: Occipito- 

 nasal length, 70; nasals iS; zygomatic width, 47; mastoid breadth, 

 40; length of pterygoid fossa, 16; basi-occipital, 12. 



487. avia. {^Mephitis), Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1898, p. 32. 

 Type locality. San Jose, Illinois. 



Geogr. Distr. Central prairie region between the range of J/, m. 

 hudsonia on the north, and M. in. soutator on east and south. 



Gcnl. Char. Size small; tail very short; heel hairy with a nar- 

 row medial naked stripe. Skull highly arched in frontal region, pal- 

 late without median spine; mastoid and paroccipital processes much 

 reduced; bulla- inflated. Sagittal crest high. 



Color. Black; the usual white frontal stripe, nuchal patch, and 

 two lateral stripes. Tail very short and bushy, black externally, 

 most of the hairs white at base. 



Measurements. Total length, 675 ; tail vertebra;, 190 ; hind 

 foot, 65. 



78. Spilogale. 



I. 3=3; c. "=•; P. 3z:3 M tn ^ 

 3—3 I— I 3—3 2—2 ■'^ 



Spilogale. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1865, p. 150. 



"Head conical. Nose short with a distinct central groove; 

 muzzle small, bald, rather notched in front; nostrils lateral. Tail 

 short, cylindrical, bushy, not so long as the body, ending in a long 

 pencil of hair. Hind foot moderate; sole bald, flat, the: front portion 

 divided into four oblong pads, the central one small and triangular, be- 

 fore the others, hinder part narrow; front claws elongate, brown. 

 False grinders, -.;; upper tubercular grinder square, moderate sized." 

 (Gray, 1. c.) 



488. putorlus. (Viverra), Linn. Syst. Nat., 1758, p. 44. Type f. 



americanus siriatus. Catesby. 



Type locality. Carolina or Florida. 



Geogr. Distr. Florida? 



Genl. Char. Size small; tail shorter than head and body; white 

 patch outside the thigh, and none on upper side of foot. 



Color. Black with the white stripes and spots usually seen on 

 members of this genus, but in addition a patch on thigh and on foot 

 as stated above; sometimes the rump spots and leg stripe are con- 

 tinuous; upper surface of basal portion of tail is white, being covered 

 by the united stripes on the rump. 



