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CALIFORNIA MAMMALS. 



Genus Spilogale Gray. (Spot — weasel.) 

 Body small and rather slender; tail long- and bushy; anal 

 sceot g-lands highly developed; skull rather flat; sectorial teeth 

 well developed; palate not extending much back of molars; sag- 

 gital crest usually small; occipital crest large: auditory bulla? 

 rather small ; mastoid sinus inflated. 



Dental formula, I, 3 — 3; C. i — i ; P, 3 — 3; M, i — 2. X2=34. 



Spilogale phenax Merriam. (Deceptive.) 



WESTERN SPOTTED SKUNK. 



Black with white stripes ; four parallel white stripes from 

 the head to the hips, a white stripe commencing behind the fore- 



Western Spotted Skunk. 



leg running back and up on the hip with a spot on each side of 

 the backbone in the direction of its fellow stripe; a transverse 

 Sitripe across tbe back part of the hips interrupted at the back- 

 bone; a spot each side of the rump; more or less wliite at the 

 base of the tail; terminal third of the tail white, more extensive 



