MAP 53— RANGE OF THE AMERICAN BADGER, AND ITS FOUR RACES. 



Taxidea laxus (Sclireber). 



This map is founded on records by J. Richardson, S. F. Baird, R. Kennicott, E. Coues, R. MacFarlane, C. H. Townsend, E. A. Meams, 

 D G. Elliot, J. Fannin, V. Bailey, E. A. Warren, O. Thomas, E. T. Seton, and C. C. Adams, in Northern Michigan. 



It is fairly correct on the north and east, further investigation will change it somewhat on the west, and greatly in Mexico. 



This gives the primitive range, but it is little changed to-day, excepting perhaps that the species is now extermmated in most of the region 

 about Lake Michigan. 



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