NORTH AMERICAN RECENT MAMMALS. 143 



t*Taxidea tazus berlandieri — Continued. 



1895. Taxidea taxus herlandieri Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 



Hist., vol. 7, p. 256. June 29, 1895. 

 Type Locality. — Llano Estacado, Texas, near border of New 



Mexico. 



t*Taxidea taxus infusca Thomas. 



1898. Taxidea taxus infusca Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



1897, p. 899. April 1, 1898. 

 Type Locality. — Santa Anita, Lower California, Mexico. 



*Taxidea taxus neglecta (Mearns). 



1891. Taxidea americana neglecta Mearns, Bull. Amer. Mus. 



Nat. Hist., vol. 3, p. 250. June 5, 1891. 

 1901. Taxidea taxus neglecta Miller and Rehn, Proc. Boston 



Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 30, p. 218. December 27, 1901. 

 Type Locality. — Fort Crook, Shasta County, California. 



Family VIVERRID^. 



Subfamily Mungotin^. (Mongooses.) 



Genus MUNGOS Geoffrey and Cuvier. 



1795. Mungos Geoffroy and Cuvier, Mag. Encycl., vol. 2, 

 p. 187. Type, Viverra mungo Gmelin. 



For use of this name in place of Herpestes Illiger see Thoma?, Ann. and 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 19, p. 119. January, 1907. 



*Mungos birmanicus (Thomas). 



1886. Herpestes auropunctatus birmanicus Thomas, Ann. and 



Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 17, p. 84. January, 1886. 

 1911. Mungos birmanicus G. M. Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 



vol. 54, p. 217. July, 1911. 

 Type Locality. ^ — Burma. Introduced and widely established 



in the West Indies. 



Family CANID^.. 



Subfamily Canine. 



Genus VULPES Oken. (Foxes.^ 



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

 1033. Type, Canis vulpes Linn^us. 



