CARN1V0RA: MUSTELIDAE 755 



1934. Mephitis mephitis hudsonica Hall, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 



40, No. 2, p. 368, Nov. 5, 1934.— Hall, Carnegie Inst. Washington PubL 



473, p. 65, Nov. 20, 1936. 

 Type Locality. — Plains of the Saskatchewan, Canada. Range. — Western 

 Canada from Central Manitoba to British Columbia, through Cascades where 

 it intergrades with spissigrada; north in British Columbia to vicinity of Tuchodi 

 Lake and junction of Liard and Nelson Rivers; north in Mackenzie District as 

 far as Simpson (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 73, Jan. 24, 

 1947) ; south in United States to Upper Peninsula of Michigan (Burt, Mammals 

 of Michigan, p. 151, 1946), Wisconsin (Schmidt, Journ. Maram., vol. 12, No. 2, 

 p. 117, May 14, 1931), Minnesota (Swanson, Minnesota Dept. Conserv. Techn. 

 Bull. 2, p. 69, 1945), Nebraska and northern New Mexico, as well as north- 

 eastern Washington and eastern edge of northern Cascades (Dalquest, Univ. 

 Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 2, p. 218, Apr. 9, 1948) . 



Mephitis mephitis nigra (Peale and Palisot de Beauvois) * 



1796. Viverra nigra Peale and Palisot de Beauvois, A scientific and descrip- 

 tive catalogue of Peale's museum, Philadelphia, p. 37. 

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



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

 1901. Chincha putida A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 20, p. 25, Aug. 



31, 1901. 

 1911. Mephitis dentata Brass, Aus dem Reiche der Pelze, p. 533, April 1911. 



(From the Alleghenies to Connecticut.) 

 1921. Mephitis mephitis nigra A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 45, p. 39, 



Oct. 28, 1921. 

 Type Locality. — Maryland. Range. — New England, and Middle Atlantic 

 States; north to southern Ontario at least as far as Toronto region; southern 

 Quebec along northern boundaries of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and 

 Maine; probably also western New Brunswick; south to northern Virginia, and 

 west of Allegheny Mountains from Lower Peninsula of Michigan and southern 

 Illinois to central Alabama and Mississippi (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 

 102 (1946) , p. 73, Jan. 24, 1947) . 



Mephitis mephitis elongata Bangs* 



1895. Mephitis mephitica elongata Bangs, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 26, 



p. 531, July 31, 1895. 

 1921. Mephitis mephitis elongata A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 45, 



p. 39, Oct. 28, 1921. 

 Type Locality. — Micco, Brevard County, Fla. Range. — Florida (from vicinity 

 of Lake Worth) to North Carolina; westward through Georgia, southern half of 

 Alabama to Mississippi River on coast. 



Mephitis mephitis avia Bangs* 



1898. Mephitis avia Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 12, p. 32, 



Mar. 24, 1898. 

 1936. Mephitis mephitis avia Hall, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 473, 



p. 65, Nov. 20, 1936. 



