FEBRUARY 6, 1903 Vou. III, pp. 101-102 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
ON A SPECIMEN OF GAZ/ICT/S 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. socéals, 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 ina 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. 
