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Type Locality. — Santa Anita, Baja California, Mexico. Range. — Peninsula of 

 Baja California. Northward extent of range on Peninsula not determined. 



Subfamily mephitinae (skunks) 



Genus SPILOGALE " 3 Gray 

 1865. Spilogale Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 1, p. 150, June 1865. (Type 

 Mephitis interrupta Rafinesque.) 



Spilogale ambarvalis Bangs* 



1884. Mephitis putorius True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), 



p. 609, Nov. 29, 1884. (Part.) 

 1898. Spilogale ambarvalis Bangs, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 28, p. 222, 



March 1898. 

 Type Locality. — Oak Lodge, East Peninsula, opposite Micco, Brevard County, 

 Fla. Range. — Eastern portion of Florida Peninsula, from New Smyrna south 

 into Dade County. 



Spilogale putorius (Linnaeus) * 



1758. Viverra putorius Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 44, 1758. 

 1875. Spilogale putorius Coues, Bull. U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr., ser. 2, 



No. 1, p. 12. (Part.) 

 1890. Spilogale ringens Merriamf, North Amer. Fauna No. 4, p. 9, Oct. 8, 



1890. (Greensboro, Hale County, Ala.) 

 Type Locality. — South Carolina. Range. — Mississippi, Alabama, western 

 Georgia, western South Carolina, and northward along Alleghenies to northern 

 Virginia; western limits of range unknown. 



Spilogale interrupta (Rafinesque) * 



1820. Mephitis interrupta Rafinesque, Annals of Nature . . ., vol. 1, p. 3. 



1890. Spilogale interrupta Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 4, p. 8, Oct. 8, 

 1890. 



Type Locality. — Upper Missouri. (See Lichtenstein, Abhandl. Preuss. Akad. 

 Wiss. Berlin, 1836, p. 281, 1838.) Range. — Iowa, southern Minnesota, eastern 

 South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma; south in eastern 

 Texas to about middle of State. Recorded also from St. Croix County, Wis. 

 (Barger, Wisconsin Conserv. Bull., vol. 16, No. 5, p. 28, May 1951). 



Spilogale indianola Merriamf* 



1890. Spilogale indianola Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 4, p. 10, Oct. 8, 

 1890. 



Type Locality. — Indianola, Matagorda Bay, Matagorda County, Tex. Range. — 

 Coast region of Texas and Louisiana: south to Victoria, Tamaulipas. 



Spilogale gracilis gracilis Merriamf* 



1890. Spilogale gracilis Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 3, p. 83. Sept. 11, 



1890. 

 1890. Spilogale leucoparia Merriamf, North Amer. Fauna No. 4, p. 11, Oct. 

 8, 1890. (Mason, Mason County, Tex. Regarded as identical with gracilis 



86 Revised by A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 26, Nov. 24, 1906. 



