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sial less than half as long as tooth; skull very wide in the occipital region; 
lambdoidal crest very greatly developed, and the sagittal but slightly, con- 
trary to what obtains in Meles. Body very stoutly built and depressed. 
Tail short. North America. Syn. Taxidia ™ Hodgson, 1847, J. Asiatic Soc. 
Bengal, v. 16, 763. 
#544 *Taxidea americana (Boddaert, 1784, Elench. Anim., v. 1, 80 [Meles ^ 
taxus]) Greve, 1894, Nova Acta Acad. Leop., Halle, 157. Common American 
badger, Blaireau d'Amerique, amerikanischer Dachs. Hudson Bay*; U. S. 
A. from Wisconsin, Hlinois, Iowa to Pacific Ocean. So. #544 Taxidea taxus, 
q. v., fide Rhoads, 1894, 524. 
#544 Taxidea* [or Meles i] lahradoria (Gmel. in Linn., 1788, Syst. Nat., v. 1, 
102 [Ursus 1]) Waterhouse, 1838, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 6, no. 71, 154. 
So. #544 Taxidea* taxus. 
#544 Taxidea [or Taxus i] lahradorica (Link, 1795, Beytr. Nat., v. 1 (2), 86 
[Meles 1]) Lesson, 1842, N. Tab. Regne Anim., Nov., 79. Amerikanischer 
Dachs. So. #544 Taxidea lahradoria, q. v. 
#544 Taxidea i leucurus Hodgson, 1847, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 15 (177), 
Nov. 10, 116. So. #528 Meles leucurus, q. v. 
#544 Taxidea species. American badger. Probably chiefly or entirely Taxidea 
taxus. 
Trichinella t366. 
spiralis. 
-Ext. 
Dermacentor t873. 
■\*variabilis. 
t*venustus — Cf. f a n- 
dersoni. 
Ixodes t866.— Ext. 
*hexagonus inchoatus. 
#544 Taxidea [or Meles i, Melus^] taxus (Schreber, 1777, Saugthiere, v. 3, 520, 
pi. U2B (1778) [Ursus i]) Rhoads, 1894, Amer. Nat., v. 28 (330), June, 524; 
American badger. Labrador* and Hudson Bay*. Several subspecies, 
Cf . also #528 Meles taxus ^ for confusion. 
Ixodes 1866.— Ext. 
*kingi. — T. h. 
Pulex tl635.— Ext. 
^irritans. — Calif.' — Nat. Inst. Health 
No. 12315. 
Triehodectes fl 100.— Ext. 
'Hnterrupto-fasciatus. — Calif. 
Taenia » <t299. 
*species Stiles & Hassall, 1894e. — 
Colorado. 
Monopetalonema <t440. 
*eremita. — Muscle. — Wyoming. 
Physaloptera 1469. 
papillotruncaLa. 
turgida. — Stom. — Phila. Zoo. 
torquata. 
Dermacentor t873.— Ext. 
'\*andersoni. 
^*variahilis. 
t*venustus ^. — So. \andersoni. 
#545 (535). Tympanic annulus confluent at its summit with roof of bulla; 
posterior rafter-like partition of bulla close down upon petrous, leaving 
narrow passage between the 2 chambers, the posterior of which is markedly 
multilocular: bullae remote from glenoid in front. See #546. 
