Mammals from Central Cordova, 2.30 



Head and body .59 ; tail 47 ; head 16 ; ear 11 ; trngiis on 

 inner edge 3-7; tliird finijjer, metacarpus -11, first phalanx 17 ; 

 filtii finger, inetaoai |)al 37, lirst plialanx 8 ; lower leg 22 ; 

 liind foot, c. u. 10*. 



%)e. Old female. B.M. no. 2. 2. 5. 39. Original numb3r 

 1724. Killed 2nd December, 1901. 



This specimen is so diflferent from any of the l)right-coloared 

 continental forms of L. horealis that I am compelled to 

 consider it as representing a peculiar form. Indeed, further 

 knowledge will not imi)robably show it to be worthy of 

 specific rank. 



3. Felis Geofroyi, d'Orb. 

 ? . 28th November, 1901. 



4. Canis gracilis, Burm. 

 2 !j! . 30th November, 1901. 



5. Conepatus proteus, sp. n. 



4 c?, 2 ? , and 2 young. 



Size very small, less than in C. numbokUi and sufocans^ 

 the smallest species previously known. Fur thin, soft, and 

 poor, far softer and less thick than in C. suffocans. Hairs 

 either directed backwards throughout or forwards from tiie 

 withers to the crown. Coloration of body very variable, the 

 two white stripes either joined or not on the crown, narrow, 

 almost obsolete, and reacliing only half down the back in the 

 least white specimen, and ranging from this to an example in 

 which the stripes are complete and extend on to the sides of 

 the base of the tail. Tail of medium length, the hairs of its 

 basal half entirely black, those of its end black, profusely 

 mixed with longer white hairs, which form a grizzled whitish 

 terminal tuft. 



Skull, as usual in this group, only differing from that of its 

 allies by size. 



Dimensions of the type : — 



Head and body 265 millim. (range 245-305) ; tail 190; 

 bind foot, s. u. 48 (range 42-52), c. u. 53; ear 25. 



Skull: greatest length (53; basal length 55; zygomatic 

 breadth 36 ; mastoid breadth 32 7 ; interorbital breadth 16*5 ; 

 palate length from gtiatiiion 25"5j upper molar 8x6. 



Hub. Cruz del Eje, 600 m. 



• From posterior side of culcar $!''of the corresponding measurement in 

 a IJoliviau borealis bS. 



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