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Subfamily Grisonin^. 



Genus GRISON Oken. 



1816. Grison Oken, Lehrb. der Naturgesch., pt. 3, vol. 2, p. 1000. 

 Type, Viverra vittata Schreber. 



For use of this name in place of Galictis Bell, see Allen, Bull. Amer. Mua. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 16, p. 377, October 11, 1902. 



t*Grison canaster (Nelson). 



1901. Galictis canaster Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 



vol. 14, p. 129. August 9, 1901. 

 1903. Grison canaster Miller and Rehn, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 



Hist., vol. 31, p. 114. August 24, 1903. 

 Type I^ocAHTy. — Near Tunkas, Yucatan, Mexico. 



Regarded by Nehring (Sitz.-Ber. Gesellsch. naturforsch. Freunde, Berlin, 

 1901, pp. 209-216) as probably identical with the Brazilian G. crassidens 

 Nehring, 1885. 



Subfamily Mephitin^. (Skunks.) 



Genus SPILOGALE Gray.''^ 



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

 Mephitis interrupta Rafinesque. 



*Spilogale ambarvalis Bangs. 



1885. Mephitis putorius True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 

 (1884), p. 609. 1885. (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, Florida. 



Range. — Eastern portion of peninsular Florida, from New- 

 Smyrna south to Lake Worth. 



*Spilogale putorius (Linnaeus). 



1758. Viverra putorius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 44, 



1758. 

 1875. Spilogale putorius Coues, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. 



Surv. Terr., ser. 2, No. 1, p. 12. (Part.) 

 tl890. Spilogale ringens Merriam, North Amer. Fauna, No. 4, 



p. 9. October 8, 1890. (Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama.) 

 Type Locality. — South Carolina. 

 Range. — Mississippi, Alabama, western Georgia, western South 



Carolina, and northward along the Alleghenies to northern 



Virginia; western limits of range unknown. 



« Revised by Howell, North Amer. Fauna, No. 26, Nov. 24, 1906. 



