348 Frerp Museum oF NATURAL History — Zodzoey, Vor. XI. 
Spilogale interrupta (RAFINESQUE), PRarIRIE SpoTTED SKUNK. 
This species may occur in western Wisconsin, as its range is known to 
extend to northeastern Iowa and the southeastern border of Minne- 
sota, but so far as known it has not as yet been taken within our 
limits. It resembles S. putorius, but it is a much blacker animal, the 
white marking being more restricted and the stripes more broken. 
Genus TAXIDEA Storr. 
Taxidea Storr, Prodr. Meth. Mamm., 1780, p. 34. Type Ursus taxus 
Schreber. 
Body stout; tail short; fore claws large and long, highly developed 
for digging; skull noticeably wide across occipital; upper carnassial 
teeth large; bulle very large; lamboidal crest greatly developed in 
adult; sagittal crest small. hog ie in skull see p. 276.) 
Dental formula: 1. 33, C.2—, Pm. 3-3, M. === 34. 
I-1 37 3) 2-2 
Taxidea taxus (SCHREBER). 
AMERICAN BADGER. 
Ursus taxus SCHREBER, Saugthiere, III, 1778, p. 520. 
Meles Labradoria LapHaM, Trans. Wis. State Agr. Soc., II, 1852 (1853), p. 338 
(Wisconsin). Kernwnicott, Trans. Ill. State Agr. Soc., I, 1853-54 (1855), p. 
578 (Cook Co., Illinois). 
Taxidea americana KENNICOTT, Agr. Rept. for 1858, U. S. Patent Office Rept., 
1859, p. 250 (Illinois). THomas, Trans. Ill. State Agr. Soc., IV, 1859-60 (1861), 
p. 655 (Illinois). Mites, Rept. Geol. Surv. Mich., I, 1860 (1861), p. 220 (Mich- 
igan). ALLEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1869 (1871), p. 183 (Iowa). 
Hoy, Trans. Wis. Acad. Sci. Arts & Lat., V, 1882, p. 256 (Wisconsin). BRayTOoN, 
Rept. Geol. Surv. Ohio, IV, Pt. I, 1882, p. 42 (Kankakee Co., Illinois). STRONG, 
Geol. Wis., Surv. 1873-79, I, 1883, p. 437 (Wisconsin). Herrick, Geol. & Nat. 
Hist. Surv. Minn., Bull. No. 7, 1892, p. 86 (Minnesota). EVERMANN & BUTLER, 
Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci., 1893 (1894), p. 137 (Indiana). SNyDER, Bull. Wis. Nat. 
Hist. Soc., II, 1902, p. 122 (Wisconsin). 
Taxidea taxus ADAMS, Rept. State Board Geol. Surv. Mich., 1905 (1906), p. 130 
(Michigan). JacKson, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc., VI, 1908, p. 28 (Wisconsin). 
Ho.iisTER, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc., VI, 1908, p. 141 (Wisconsin). HAHN, 
Ann. Rept. Dept. Geol. & Nat. Resources Ind., 1908 (1909), p. 577 (Indiana). 
Woop, Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist., VIII, rg10, p. 574 (Illinois). 
Type locality — Originally given as Labrador and Hudson Bay, 
although the species is not known to occur there. 
Distribution — From northern Indiana west to the Sierra Nevada 
Mountains, south at least to Kansas and New Mexico, north in the 
Saskatchewan region to about latitude 55°; replaced in the South and 
West by allied forms. 
