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Col'do R. Mch, 30 '61 J. G. C"; reverse, eleven measure- 

 ments, and a notation "I. brush grey". A separate label has 

 the printed name pasted on '"Vulpes velox, Aud. and Bach. 

 Kit Fox; Swift Fox."" 



Skin in poor condition, neither stuffed nor tanned. Bones 

 of tail, feet, and partly of legs, attached ; skull removed, neck 

 stuffed with brown paper, left fore leg almost broken off; tail 

 partly broken off, adherent by bones only. 



The specimen closely resembles examples of Vulpes macro tis 

 arsipus from the Colorado River in the collection of the 

 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. 



Mephitis occidentalis holzneri Mearns 



"Mephitis occidentalis" (part), Cooper, Zoology, in Cronise, 

 The Natural Wealth of California, 1868, p. 436. (Common 

 in California) ; Amer. Nat., 3, 1869, p. 186 ("Southern coast- 

 slope" of California). 



Specimen examined. — One, skull only: No. 7048, Mus. 

 Comp. Zool. Harvard Univ. ; original label missing ; museum 

 label reads "Museum Comp. Zool., Skull No. 7048 9 Mephitis 

 occidentalis Baird, Cal. Saticoy, Apl. 1873." On cranium, 

 apparently in Cooper's handwriting, appears the following: 

 ''Mephitis 9 Saticoy, Cal. Apr. 1873 J. G. C." 



Cranium in good condition, but with injury between left 

 outer incisor and canine, and with small portion of right 

 paroccipital process missing. 



Mephitis occidentalis (subspecies indet.) 



Specimen examined. — One, skin only: No. 5644, Mus. 

 Comp. Zool. Harvard Univ. ; original label missing ; items 

 from labels attached indicate that skin is from "California" 

 and was collected by "Dr. J. G. Cooper." 



Skin has been made over into a modern museum specimen. 

 In the absence of a cranium it is not identifiable as between 



'• In the case of certain Cooper specimens from the older collection of the Uni- 

 versity of California, now incorporated with the collection of the Museum of Verte- 

 brate Zoology, printed strips bearing the scientific or vernacular names or both have 

 been pasted on Cooper's original label. It is not improbable that this was the work 

 of J. J. Rivers, who at one time did curatorial duty on the collections in the Depart- 

 ment of Zoology at the University of California. 



