ALLEN: mammalia: mustelid.^. 147 



observed it within ten miles of the foot of the Cordillera. The skins are 

 much prized by the Indians for the making of capas'' (/. c, p. 260). 



Genus LYNCODON Gervais. 



Lyncodon Gervais, Diet. univ. d'Hist. Nat., IV, 1849, 685. Type, Lyn- 

 codon patagonicus, sp. nov. 

 This monotypic genus is most nearly related to Grison Oken^ (= Galictis 

 Bell et auct.) and Tayra Oken^ [Galeva Q\2.y ex Brown), but is quite 

 distinct from either, differing in its reduced dentition, and externally by 

 its very short tail and peculiar pattern of coloration. 



Lyncodon patagonicus Gervais. 



Lyncodon pnfagoiikiis Ci&rx^As, Diet. Univer. d'Hist. Nat, IV, 1849,685; 



Hist. Nat. des Mamm., II, 1855, 115, fig- (dentition). — Bur- 



meister, Descrip. phys. Rep. Arg., Ill, 1879, 161. — Matschie, 



Sitzungsb. Ges. naturf Freunde Berlin, 1895, 1 71-177. 



Musfela {Pidorius) brasiliensis D'Orbigny, Voy. de I'Amer. Merid., IV, 



Mamm., 20, pi. xiii, fig. 3 (skull). 

 Pufois du Chili {Musfela brasiliensis on plate) Blainville, Osteog., Gen. 



Mustela, 42, pi. xiii (dentition). 

 Mustela qidqni Burmeister [nee Molina) Reise durch die La Plata Staaten, 

 II, 1 86 1, 408. 

 General color grizzled gray brown, the hairs at base fulvous, subapically 

 broadly ringed with dark brown and terminating in a long white tip ; 

 nape blackish brown ; head yellowish white, from which extends posteriorly 

 on either side a broad whitish stripe from the side of the head to the 

 shoulder ; throat, breast and limbs dark brown like the nape ; rest of the 

 lower surface paler brown varied with gray ; tail like the dorsal surface, 

 bushy-haired; ears very small, yellowish white, concealed by the sur- 

 rounding pelage. 



Measurements (approximate from flat skin). — Total length, 335 mm.; tail 

 vertebrae, 65. Burmeister gives the total length as 15 inches (380 mm.) 



^Grisoyt Oken, Lehib. der Zool., II, 1816, pp. xi and 1000. Type, Vivcrra vittata Schreber. 

 Cf. Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, XVI, 1902, p. 377. 



' Tayra Oken, Lehrb. der Zool., II, 18 16, p. lOOi. ly^^, Mustela barbara Linn. Cf. Allen, 

 Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XVI, 1902, p. 377. 



