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from the same locality is perplexing and many specimens occur, espe- 

 cially in Wisconsin, which appear to beintergrades. 



The habits of this form are apparently similar to those of the North- 

 ern or Hudsonian Skunk which has already been described. 



Genus SPILOGALE Gray. 



Spilogale Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 150. Type Mephitis 



interrupta Rafinesque. 



Size smaller than Mephitis; skull somewhat flattened; audital 

 bullae inflated; auditory meatus tubular and directed obliquely forward; 

 zygomata prominently arched, the highest point at the middle; back 

 with four white stripes. 



Dental formula: I. ^^, C. i^, Pm. ^^, M. -^^=34. 

 Z-i i-i 2>~2> 2-2 



Spilogale putorius (Linn.). 

 Alleghenian Spotted Skunk. Civet Cat. 



Viverra putorius LiNN.EUS, Syst. Nat., X ed., I, 1758, p. 44. 



Spilogale putorius Howell, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 26, 1906, p. 15 (Tennessee, etc.). 



lb., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXIII, 1910, p. 32 (Illinois, Kentucky). 

 Type locality — South Carolina. 



Distribution — From Virginia to Georgia in the interior, and westward 

 to eastern Arkansas and Missouri, north to western Kentucky, 

 southern Illinois and southern Indiana; exact western limits of 

 range unknown. 

 Description — General color black and white ; four white stripes on the 

 back, which are broken on the lower back and appear as irregular 



spots or bands; a 

 white patch on the 

 forehead ; end of 

 tail white. 

 Measurements — Total 

 ^^^' length, 18.50 to 22 



spilogale puiorius. Ill- (47° ^^ 55^ 



mm.); tail verte- 

 bras, 7.50 to 8.70 in. (190.5 to 220 mm.); hind foot, about 2 in. 

 (46 to 51 mm.). 



This species is claimed to occur in southern Illinois. Howell states: 

 "They are reported to be fairly common at Golconda, Illinois;" and 

 Hahn includes it in his mammals of Indiana as occurring in Knox 

 County. Hunters inform me that there are two kinds of Skunks in 



