JAN., 1912. MaAmMALS, VENEZUELA AND CoLomBIA — OsGoop. 61 
Tayra barbara Linneus. Tayra. 
One specimen, Empalado Savannas, April 8. 
This is an adult male shot and presented by U. S. Consul Totten 
who encountered it roving about in midday. External field measure- 
ments are: Total length 1035; head and body 625; tail vertebre 410; 
hind foot 118. 
Local names Guache and Guanaico. 
Mustela affinis Gray. Allied Weasel. 
Two specimens (c' and 2), Paramo de Tama, head of Tachira 
River, Venezuela and Colombia. 
One of these was caught in a steel fas baited with birds and set 
by the side of a rushing mountain stream, the conditions being essentially 
those under which so many weasels are caught in more northern coun- 
tries. The other was shot in midday as it came prowling about our 
**house’’ in the clearing on the Venezuelan side of the Tachira. 
No doubt these specimens are fairly typical of M. affinis, the type 
of which is stated to have come from “Columbia.” They differ from 
a specimen from Sierra de Merida only in somewhat richer color of the 
under parts, the male being bright orange rufous on the abdomen and 
paler on the chest, throat, and inguinal region. The white marking in 
front of the ear is absent in the female which is in very fine coat, the 
entire upper parts except the head and tip of tail being rich seal brown 
so dark that the blackish head and tail-tip are not in great contrast. 
_ The general appearance of the upper parts, therefore, is extremely 
suggestive of a miniature of a North American mink. 
Conepatus mapurito Gmelin. Hog-nosed Skunk. 
One specimen, El Panorama, Rio Aurare, Jan. 19. 
Although taken in the dry coast lowlands, this specimen must for 
the present be referred to C. mapurito, the type locality of which is 
Pamplona, Colombia, in the cool highlands not far from Paramo de 
Tama. It is greatly to be regretted that our efforts to secure skunks 
in that vicinity were unsuccessful. The Rio Aurare example is thinly 
haired and has two short white dorsal stripes, apparently being quite 
similar in markings to the Bogota specimen to which Thomas has re- 
ferred.* External field measurements are: Total length 600; head 
and body 387; tail vertebrz 213; hind foot 74. 
Local name Mapurite. 
* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., (7), II, p. 318, 1808. 
