102 BULLETIN 19, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



*Mustela vison melampeplus (Elliot). 



1903. Putonus vison melampeplus Elliott, Field Columb. 



Mus., publ. 74, zool. ser. 3, p. 170. April, 1903. 

 Type Locality. — Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. 



*Mustela vison nesolestes (Heller). 



1909. Lutreola vison nesolestes Heller, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 



vol. 5, p. 259. February 18, 1909. 

 Type Locality. — ^Windfall Harbor, Admiralty Island, Alaska. 



*Mustela vison vulgivaga (Bangs). 



1895. Putorius {Lutreola) vulgivagus Bangs, Proc. Boston Soc. 



Nat. Hist., vol. 26, p. 539. July 31, 1895. 

 Type Locality. — Burbridge, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. 



Subgenus Putorius Ouvier.' 



1817. Putorius Cuvier, Regne Animal, vol. 1, p. 147. Type, 

 Mustela putorius Linn^us. 



*Mustela nigripes (Audubon and Bachman). 



1851. Putorius nigripes Audubon and Bachman, Quadr. N. 



Amer., vol. 2, p. 297. 

 1885. Putorius nigripes, True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 



(1884), p. 609. 1885. 

 Type Locality. — Fort Laramie, Laramie County, Wyoming. 

 (See Hayden, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, n. s., vol. 12, p. 138, 

 1862.) 



Subfamily Melin^. 



Genus TAYRA Oken. 



1816. Tayra Oken, Lehrb. der Naturgesch. pt. 3, vol. 2, p. 1001. 

 Type, Mustela harhara Linn.^<:us. 



For use of this name in place of Galera Gray, see Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 16, p. 377, October 11, 1902. 



*Tayra barbara biologiae (Thomas). 



1900. Galictis harhara hiologise Thomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 



Hist., ser. 7, vol. 5, p. 146. January, 1900. 

 Type Locality. — Calovevora, Veragua, Panama. 



*Tayra barbara inserta Allen. 



1908. Tayra harhara inserta Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 



Hist., vol. 24, p. 662. October 13, 1908. 

 Type Locality. — Uluce, Matagalpa, Nicaragua. 



> Revised by Merriam, North Amer. Fauna, No. 11, pp. 7-9, June 30, 1896. 



