114 BULI^ETIN 128, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Bassariscus sumichrasti variabilis (Peters). 



1874. Bassaris variabilis Peters, Monatsber. k. preuss. Akad. 



Wissensch., Berlin, p. 704. 

 1903. Bassariscus sumichrasti variabilis Thomas, Ann. and Mag. 



Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 11, p. 379. April, 1903. 

 Type Locality. — Coban, Guatemala. 



Family MUSTELID^.^ 



Subfamily Musteline. 



Genus MARTES Pinel.*^ (Martens.) 



1792. Maries Pinel, Actes Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 1, p. 55. 

 Type, Maries domestica Pinel = Mustelafoina Erxleben. 



Subgenus MARTES Pinel. (Martens.) 



*Martes americana americana (Turton). 



1806. [Mustela] americanus Turton, Linngeus, System of Nature, 



vol. 1, p. 60. 

 1885. Mustela americana True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 



(1884), p. 610. 1885. (Part.) 

 1912. Maries americana americana Miller, North Amer. Land 



Mamm. 1911, p. 92. December 31, 1912. 

 Type Locality. — Eastern North America. 



t*Martes americana abieticola (Preble). 



1902. Mustela americana abieticola Preble, North Amer. Fauna, 



No. 22, p. 68. October 31, 1902. 

 1912. Maries americana abieticola ^Miller, North Amer. Land 



Mamm. 1911, p. 92. December 31, 1912. 

 Type Locality. — Cumberland House, Saskatchewan, Canada. 



*Martes americana abietinoides Gray. 



1865. [Maries americana] var. 1., abietinoides Gray, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. London, p. 106. 

 1902. Mustela americana abietinoides Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Philadelphia, p. 451. September 30, 1902. 

 1912. Maries americana abietinoides Miller, North Amer. Land 



Mamm. 1911, p. 93. December 31, 1912. 

 Type Locality. — ''Edge of the humid western slope of the 



Rocky Mountains, somewhere between Kicking Horse Pass 



and the Columbia River. " (Rhoads, p. 451.) 



<» The classification here adopted is modified from that of Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1921, pp. 

 829-8.37. 



*» For present use of the names Martes and Mustela see Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1911, pp. 138, 

 139, March, 1911. 



