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from the Mexican line north to about the latitude of Monterey; 

 east to the southern Sierra Nevada and the western edges of 

 the Moliave and Colorado deserts (Howell, X. Amer. Fauna, 

 20. 1901. p. 38: Mus. Vert. Zool.). 



Mephitis platyrhina (Howell) 

 Broad-nosed Striped Skunk 



Original dcscril^tioii — Cliincha ("latyrhina Howell, N. Amer. 

 Fauna, 20, August 31. 1901. p. 39. 



Type locality — South Fork of Kern River, 25 miles east 

 of Kernville, Kern County, California. 



Range — Lower Sonoran zone about southern end of Sierra 

 Nevada; recorded only from valley of the South Fork of the 

 Kern River, in Kern County, and from Owens Valley and 

 Owens Lake, in Inyo County (Howell, supra cit.). 



Taxidea taxus neglecta Mearns 

 California Badger 



Original description — Taxidea americana neglecta Mearns, 

 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 3, June. 1891. p^. 250. 251. 



Type locality — Fort Crook (near Burgettville), Shasta 

 County, California. 



Synonyms — Taxidea americana; Taxidea taxus; Western 

 Badger: American Badger. 



Range — Chiefly Sonoran and Transition zones, casually 

 Boreal, east and south of the humid coast belt, and northwest 

 of the Colorado Desert : in other words, interior valleys, from 

 the Oregon line east of the humid coast belt to the Mexican 

 line west of the Colorado Desert : occurs both east and west 

 of the Sierra Nevada (Mus. Yert. Zool.). 



Taxidea taxus berlandieri Baird 

 Mexican Badger 



Original description — Taxidea berlandieri Baird, Pac. R. R. 

 Rep., 8, 1857. p. 205. 



Type locality — Llano Estacado. Texas, near border of New 

 Mexico . 



