/ . ilEPniTIS. 



137 



Var. a. mesomelas. Crown white ; streak broad, continued from 

 the crown to the end of the tail ; face with a narrow white streak. 



Mephitis mesomelas, Licht. Darstell. d. Sdugeth. t. 45. f. 2 ; Abh. 



Akad. Bed. 183G, p. 277. 

 Mephitis occidentalis, Baird, Mamm. N. A. p. 194. 

 Moui'ette de TAm^rique Septentrionale, F. Cuv. Mamm. Lith. 



Var. h. mephitka. Like a, hut no white streak on the face ; back- 

 streaks narrowed and almost interrupted on the loins. B.M. 

 Mephitis mephitica, Baird, Mamm. N. A. p. 195. 



Yar. c. varians. Like a, with face-streak; but back-streak not 

 reaching beyond (and some specimens not even to) the middle of the 

 back, the white on the crown varying in size at the same time. B.M. 



Mephitis variaus, Gray, Maq. N. H. 1837, t. ; Baird, Mamm. N. A. 

 p. 193 ; Mexico, p. 192, t."60. f. 2 (skull). 



Var. d. Like c ; but no white face-streak ; the spot on the 

 crown with a pair of short streaks behind, not reaching to the 

 shoulders. B.M. 



Var. e. cMnga. Face-streak broad ; crown-spot and dorsal streaks 

 very broad, occupying nearly the whole upper surface of the body, a 

 short black dorsal streak from the base of the tail to or towards the 

 shoulders. 



Mephitis chinga, Tiedemann, Zool. i. p. 361 ; Licht. Darstell. d. Situ- 



geth. t. 45. f. 1 ; Pr. Max. Arch. f. Katurg. 18G1, p. 218. 

 Jlophitis mephitica, Baird, Mamm. N. A. i. p. 195. 

 Mephitis cliiuche, Fischer. 

 Mustela chinga, Blainn. Os^e'oyr.^Mustela, 1. 13 (teeth), 1. 1 (skeleton), 



t. 6 (skuU). 

 Viven-a mephitis, Griffith. 

 Chincha ameiicana, Lesson. 



Mephitis amerieana, De Kay, Zool. N. 1'. t. 12. f. 1. 

 Mephitis amerieana, vav. hudsonica, Richardson, Faun. Bor.-Amer. i. 



p. 55. 

 Chinche, Btiffou, H. N. xiii. p. 300, t. 39 ; Pennant, Arct. Zool. Mamm. 



p. 40 ; F. Cuv. ^- Geoff. Mamm. Lith. t. 

 Skunk, Kalm. 

 AVegak, or Skunk, Hearne. 

 Enfant du Diable, Charlevoix. 



Hub. North America. 



Mephitis 

 varians, c. 



Mephitis 

 varians, 6. 



Length of skull 



noso 



zygoma and orbit 



palate 



lower jaw 



Width of brain-case over ears 



nose in front of orbit 



tooth-line of canine and grinders 



in. lin. 



3 

 lOi 



3i 

 U 

 1 



11 

 11 



in. lin. 



2 9 



10 



1 2 

 1 Oi 



1 n 



1 .3J 



lOA 



10 



