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171875. Skin and skull. Adult male. Mount Kilimanjaro, alti- 

 tude 5,000 feet, German East Africa [ = Tanganyika Territory]. 

 September 1889. Collected by W. L. Abbott. 



Flat skin in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



Genus MEPHITIS Geoffrey and Cuvier 



t Mephitis estor Merriam. 



North Amer. Fauna 3 : SI, Sept. 11, 1890. 

 —Mephitis mephitis estor Merriam. See Hall, Univ. California Publ. Zool. 

 37 : 1, Apr. 10, 1931. 



}^I]^, Skin and skull. Adult male. San Francisco Mountain, 

 24645 ' 



Coconino County, Ariz. August 17, 1889. Collected by Vernon 

 Bailey. Original number 369. 



Well-made skin in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



*Mephitis f rontata Coues. 



Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr. (ser. 2), No. 1: 7, 1875. 

 = Mephitis tnephitis nigra (Peale and Beauvois). See Hall, Carnegie Inst. 

 Washington Publ. 473 : 69, Nov. 20, 1936 ; Miller, Jouru. Mamm. 22 : 190-192, 

 May 16, 1941. 



2232. Skull. Old adult. Dales Cave, 3 miles northwest of Lew- 

 isburg. Union County, Pa. Collected by S. F. Baird. Cata 

 loged March 1856. 

 Skull Grade B. 



* Mephitis milleri Mearns. 



Preliminary Diagnoses of New Mammals of the Genera Mephitis, Dorcer 



laphus and Dieotylcs, from the Mexican border of the United States, 



p. 1, Feb. 11, 3897. (Reprint: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 20: 467, Dee. 24, 



1897.) 



=Mephitis macroura milleri Mearns. See J. A. Allen. Bull. Amer. Mus. 



Nat. Hist. 14 : 334, Nov. 12, 1901. 



58851. Skin and skull. Adult male. Fort Lowell, near Tucson, 

 Pima County, Ariz. November 13, 1893. Collected by F. X. 

 Holzner. Original number 1109. 



Well-made skin in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



*Mephitis occidentalis Baird. Lectotype. 



Mammals of North America, p. 194, 1857. 

 =Mcphitis mephitis occidentalis Baird. See Hall, Carnegie Inst. Washington 

 Publ. 473 : 67, Nov. 20, 1936. 



2617. Skull. Adult, probably male. Petaluma, Sonoma County, 

 Calif. Collected by E. Samuels. Original number 837. Cat- 

 aloged December 10, 1856. 



Skull Grade A. The skin. No. 1944, that originally accompanied this 

 skull, was, according to the catalog, "destroyed Jan. 8, 1886." 



