OF THE EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN BADGERS. 



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opinioD, by do means certain that tliis likeness involv^es close 

 affinity, since the two genera clifFer considerably in the strncture 

 of the two posterior maxillary teeth and in the development of 

 the pinna of the ear, of the pads on the feet, etc. 



Text-figure 25. 



A. Posterior maxillary teeth of Taxidea. Nat. size. 



C. The same of Meles. 



B. Posterior mandibular teeth of Taxidea. 



D. The same of Meles. 



Pending an examination of Mydaiis and llelictis^., which I 

 have not seen, I propose to restrict the subfamily Melince to the 

 genera Meles and Arctonyx. With these limitations the Melhue 



* This genus, as already stated, was >^evered from the 3Ielin^ both by Gray and 

 Gill. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1920, No. XXIX. 29 



