MUSTELID.^: 



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curved, very large; anal scent g-lands small; last molars tuber- 

 ciilate; andital bulhe large; palate extending half way from last 

 molar to audita! bulla; occipital crests very large; brain case 

 triangular, very wide posteriorly. 



Taxidea taxus neglecta Mearns. (Overlooked.) 



WESTERN BADGER. 



Above grizzled gray, the basal half of the hairs pale yellow- 

 ish brown, the tip buffy white or grayish white, the subapical 

 fourth dusky ; a narrow white stripe over the head, usually to 

 the shoulders, often extending to the rump; nose, upper part of 



the head each side of tlie white stripe, a patch in front (^f the ears 

 and feet black; under side of the head, with a point extending up 

 between the eye and the ear white ; under side of body buff, with 

 an irregular white stripe in the middle; tail yellowish brown 

 grizzled with black and white above, paler beneath; hairs of 

 sides much longer than those of upper and under surfaces. Im- 

 mature; less grizzled with gray. 



