99G Life-histories of Northern Animals 



WEIGHT The following Badgers I weighed at Clayton, N. M., in 1893: 



Female, taken October 26, was lo^ pounds. 

 Female, taken November 2, was 14 pounds 5 ounces. 

 Female, taken December 28, was 16^ pounds (excessively 

 fat). 



Male, taken December 29, was 14I pounds. 

 Bachman gives' 23 pounds as the weight of one he ex- 

 amined in the Menagerie at Charleston, S. C. 



COLOUR General colour above, silvery gray, each hair being yellow- 



ish-white at base, then blackish with a white tip; neck, crown, 

 and muzzle above, brown; cheeks, chin, and stripe from nose 

 over head to shoulders, white; under parts generally yellowish- 

 white; bar on each cheek, back part of ear, and the feet, dull 

 black; tail, tinged yellowish-brown. 



When seen alive it looks like a small Bear that has been 

 flattened somehow, coloured silvery gray, and adorned with 

 black and white marks on the head. 



The following races are recognized: 



taxus Schreber, the typical form. 



neglecta Mearns, differs in being smaller, with longer 

 tail, and with colours deeper and richer than in 

 either the preceding or following. 



herlandieri Baird, is distinguished by having the white 

 line continued along the back in some cases to 

 the tail, also by a general buffiness of colour (as 

 compared with the silvery gray of taxus), and 

 heavier markings. 



infusca Thomas, similar to herlandieri but darker. 



Life-history. 



RANGE The map (No. 53) shows the range of the Badger in the 



North-west to coincide with the untimbered regions in which 

 ' Aud. & Bach., Q. N. A., 1849, Vol. I, p. 363. 



