February 6, 1903 Vol. Ill, pp. 101-102 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 



ON A SPECIMEN OF GALICTIS CANASTER NELSON. 

 BY OUTRAM BANGS. 



In the years 1882 and 1883 the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology received from P. Ma. Toro, of Orizaba, Mexico, a num- 

 ber of mammals and birds. The mammals had no original 

 labels, other than, now and then, a piece of paper tied to the leg, 

 with the color of the eye noted — as, "ojos negros." All were 

 catalogued and labelled in the Museum, — " Orizaba, Mexico." 

 Most of them probably did come from the vicinity of Orizaba, 

 but some certainly did not. For example, there are in the lot 

 three species of squirrels : two of these, Sciurus deppei and S. 

 aureogaster, are found at Orizaba, but the third, S. soda/is, is 

 known only from the west coast. Mr. E. W. Nelson, who com- 

 pared it for me with his material in the collection of the U. S. 

 Biological Survey, wrote me as follows: — "The locality on old 

 label is wrong, as this species is peculiar to west coast of Mexico 

 and this specimen represents the typical form from near Tehuan- 

 tepec." 



This collection of mammals had been put away in a case by itself, 

 where it had lain undisturbed for nearly twenty years. A short 

 time ago I took the skins out, for the purpose of having the 

 skulls removed and the skins made over. The species had never 

 been identified; most of them were common Mexican mammals 

 of medium and large size, such as peccaries, raccoons, nasuas, 

 potos, spotted cats, gray foxes, weasels, rabbits, and .squirrels. 



