346 Fretp Museum or Natura History — Zoé.oey, Vor. XI. 
from the same locality is perplexing and many specimens occur, espe- 
cially in Wisconsin, which appear to be intergrades. 
The habits of this form are apparently similar to those of the North- 
ern or Hudsonian Skunk which has already been described. 
Genus SPILOGALE Gray. 
Spilogale Gray, Proc. Zoél. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 150. Type Mephitis 
interrupta Rafinesque. 
Size smaller than Mephitis; skull somewhat flattened; audital 
bullz inflated; auditory meatus tubular and directed obliquely forward; 
zygomata prominently arched, the highest point at the middle; back 
with four white stripes. 
Dental formula: I. SSG, Pi, 29M 27 Te 34. 
373 I-I 3-3 2-2 
Spilogale putorius (Lrinv.). 
ALLEGHENIAN SPOTTED SKUNK. CIVET Cart. 
Viverra putorius LINN&US, Syst. Nat., X ed., I, 1758, p. 44. 
Spilogale putorius HOWELL, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 26, 1906, p. 15 (Tennessee, etc.). 
Ib., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXIII, 1910, p. 32 (Illinois, Kentucky). 
Type locality — South Carolina. 
Distribution — From Virginia to Georgia in the interior, and westward 
to eastern Arkansas and Missouri, north to western Kentucky, 
southern Illinois and southern Indiana; exact western limits of 
range unknown. 
Description — General color black and white; fowr white stripes on the 
back, which are broken on the lower back and appear as irregular 
spots or bands; a 
white patch on the 
forehead; end of 
tail white. 
Measurements —Total 
length, 18.50 to 22 
Spilogale putorius, in. (470 to 558 
mm.); tail verte- 
bre, 7.50 to 8.70 in. (190.5 to 220 mm.); hind foot, about 2 in. 
(46 to 51 mm.). 
This species is claimed to occur in southern Illinois. Howell states: 
“They are reported to be fairly common at Golconda, Illinois;’ and 
Hahn includes it in his mammals of Indiana as occurring in Knox 
County. Hunters inform me that there are two kinds of Skunks in 
