1865.) DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE MUSTELIDE. 141 
second small, conical, third compressed, with two confluent tu- 
bercles, outer edge thin; flesh-tooth oblong, with a single large 
tubercle in front and two pairs of others, the hind pair curved ; 
tubercular tooth subconical, with three tubercles. 
in. lin. 
Length of skulla ys jiten 25 $208 3 ahi 10 
Ob Nose. yeas al Si toh), Sh 
OF Walaa Ae ia ble et Welmacitas « Zee (0 
of orbit and zygoma tea ea ret Ne 
Width of skull over ears ...........-.00- 2 6 
of nose at orbits .. Ps? 
of skull behind Sie (0, 
Length of lower jaw........ 1 
TAXIDEA AMERICANA. B.M. 
Grey, black-and-white varied ; neck and beneath white; spot 
before the ears, a narrow streak from nose, above the eyes, to the 
back, black ; feet dark brown. 
Ursus taxrus, Schreb. Saugeth. 520, t. 142; Buffon. 
Meles tarus, var. americana, Bodd. Elench. i. 136. 
M. americanus, Zimm., from Penn. Arct. Zool. i. 76. 
Ursus labradorius, Gmelin, 8. N.i. 102; Shaw, Zool. i. 469, t. 106. 
Meles labradoria, Sabine, App. Parry’s Travels, 649 ; Richardson, 
Fauna Bor.-Amer. 40 ; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 151. 
M. jeffersonii, Harlan, F. Amer. 309. 
Taxidea labradoria, Waterh. Trans. Zool. Soc. ii. 348, t. 59; 
Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 70; Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. 99; 
Baird, Mamm. N. A. 202, t. 39. f. 2. 
Meles labradorius, Schinz, Syn. Mamm. 315. 
Taxus labradorius, Say, Long’s Exped. i. 261, 369, 1823. 
Carcajou, Buffon, H. N. Supp. iii. 242, t. 49 (not La Houtan). 
Taxidea americana, Baird, Mamm. N. A. 202. 
American Badger, Penn. Syn. 204. 
? Brairo (French Canadians), Lewis & Clarke, Trav. ii. 40. 
Siffeur, French Canadians. 
Flacyoti, Hernandez. 
Var. berlandierit. Smaller; reddish above, with a narrow white 
dorsal streak. 
Taxidea berlandieri, Baird, Mamm. N. A. 205, t. 39. f.1 (Mexico). 
Var. Californica, pale line continued from nape to base of tail 
(Bennett, P. Z. S. 1833, p. 42). (Skull, B. M.) 
Hab. California (David Douglas) ; Texas (skull, B. M.). 
21. Mypaus. 
Head conical. Nose attenuated. Muzzle rather produced, mo- 
bile, obliquely truncated ; beneath rather bald, with a distinct central 
longitudinal bald groove. Nostrils inferior, lateral. Body short ; 
limbs short. Feet plantigrade, soles broad, bald to the heel. Toes 
