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Mephitis longicaudata ?, Tomes, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 280. 



The Chiuche (Viverra chingu), Molina, JEnsai H. N. du Chili, p. 240. 



Hah. Mexico ; New Granada ; Santa Fe de Bogota ; California. 



The Mephitis (Thiosmus) Molince, Licht. I. c. p. 272, with the 

 white dorsal streak broken into five oval spots, is probably only an 

 accidental form of this variety. 



Var. 2. HumhoMtii. Black or blackish brown, with a very broad 

 dorsal streak, like var. 1, with a narrow black streak up the centre 

 of the back, widest in the middle. B.M. 



Conepatus Ilumboldtii, Gray, Mai/. Nat. Hist. i. p. 581, 1837. 

 Mephitis Ilumboldtii, Blainv. Osteof/r. Mustela, t. 13. f. (teeth). 

 Conepatus Ilumboldtii, Owen, Odont. t. 11, 12. 

 Mephitis patagonica, Licht. Abhandl. Akad. Beii. 1836, p. 275, t. 



(1838). 

 ? Mustela (LAmcodon) patagonica, D'Orb. Voy. Amer. ix. t. 13. f. 4 



(skull). 

 ? Mephitis Westeraiaunii, Reinhardt, K. D. Vidensk. Selsk. Forh. 1856, 



p. 270. 

 Mephitis conepate, Desm., Waterh. Cat. Zool. Soc. Mus. pp. 29, 176. 

 Yaguare, Maikel, Falk. Patayon. p. 128. 



Hah. Magellan Straits. B.M. 



Var. 3. chihnsis. Black ; back with two broad white streaks, 

 which are confluent on the forehead and continued to the tail ; tail 

 black and white. In one specimen the lateral streaks are narrow, 

 interrupted on the side of loins, and in another, very young, narrow 

 and not united on the forehead. B.M. 



Conepatus Ilumboldtii, \w.,Gray,Mag.N. H. i. p. 581, 1837 (!). B.M. 



Conepatus amazonicus. Gray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 69, 1812 (!). B.M. 



Mephitis furcatus, Wayner, Schreb. Siiuyeth. Siippl. ii. p. 129. 



Mephitis chilensis, F. Cur. Diet. 8ci. Nat. xiii. p. 126. 



IMephitis suflbcans, Llliyer, Licht. Dar.^teU. t. 48. 



Mephitis (Thiosmus) amazonica, Licht. Abhand. Akad. Berlin fiir 



18.36, p. 275, t. (1838) (!). Type, B.M. 



Mephitis (Thiosmus) chilensis, Licht. Abhand. Ak. Berl. 1838, p. 272; 



Gray, P. Z. S. 1848 (!). B.M. 



Mephitis (Thiosmus) quitensis, Licht. I. c. p. 273. 

 Gulo quitensis, Humb. Obs. Zool. p. 346. 

 Moufctte du Chili, Bufon, H. N. Siippl. vii. p. 233, t. 57. 

 Mephitis of Chili, Griffith, A. K. ii. t. 



Conepatus chilensis, Gerrard, Cat. Bwies B. M. 97 (!). B.M. 



Mar^nitius chilensis, Gray, May. Nat. HUt. 1837, i. (!) B.M. 



Hah. Chili (Bridges, B.M.) ; Magellan Straits {Kimj, B.M). 

 Biiffon's figure represents the tail too long and broad ; it is a 

 subcylindric tuft only, not so long as the body without the head. 



Yar. 4. Lichtensteinii. Black ; crown and nape with a broad 

 white blotch, separated behind into two narrow nearly parallel 

 white streaks on the middle of the back, reaching nearly to the 

 loins ; tail, end-half white. B.M. 



Hah. Tropical America. 



This specimen is much distorted in stuffing : the tail is elongated 



