102 BANGS GALICTIS CANASTER [ P VoL 111°" 



One skin, however, instantly arrested my attention: it was that 

 of a fine, large, grizzled, gray Galictis. The skull was taken out, 

 and was found to be perfect, except that the occipital region had 

 been cut away, the more easily to remove the brains. It proves 

 the specimen to have been fully adult, though not aged. The 

 skin also is in fine condition. 



Upon comparing this specimen with Mr. Nelson's account 1 of 

 the living animal he examined, that had been captured by Indians 

 near Tunkas, Yucatan, it becomes perfectly clear that the two 

 belong to one and the same species, to which Mr. Nelson gave 

 the appropriate name Galictis canaster. It is certainly very 

 different from Galictis vittata Schreber (there is one specimen of 

 the latter in our Museum, from Santa Rita, Brazil), being much 

 larger and having the upper parts clear " pepper-and-salt " gray, 

 in place of the yellowish brown color of these parts in G. vittata. 

 What relationship G. canaster bears to G. allamandi Bell, or G. 

 crassidens Nehring (first described from Minas-Geraes, Brazil, 

 but afterward recorded by its describer from Guatemala), I am 

 unable to say, from lack of material ; my object in publishing 

 this note is merely to call attention to what is probably the only 

 museum specimen 2 of this rare Mexican animal at present to be 

 found on this side of the Atlantic. 



1 A new species of Galictis from Mexico, E. W. Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, Vol. 

 XIV, pp. 129-130, Aug. 9, 1901. 



- Galictis canaster Nelson, ad. skin and skull, no. 6420, Mus. Comp. Zool., "Orizaba, Mex- 

 ico," P. Ma. Toro. 



