102 BANGS — GALICTIS CANASTER se 
One skin, however, instantly arrested my attention: it was that 
of a fine, large, grizzled, gray Gadictis. 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? 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 Gadictis canaster. It is certainly very 
different from Gadictis 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. viftata. 
What relationship G. canaster bears to G. allamandi Bell, or G. 
crasstdens 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? of this rare Mexican animal at present to be 
found on this side of the Atlantic. 
1 A new Species of Gadzctis 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. Zodl., ‘‘ Orizaba, Mex- 
ico,” P. Ma. Toro. 
