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region slightly inflated; mastoid processes and sagittal crest never greatly 
developed; zygomata never spreading abruptly, and often nearly parallel 
to axis of skull; interorbital constriction not marked; paroccipital processes 
directed outward and not sharply pointed; posterior margin of coronoid 
distinctly concave. Size medium to small; build much slenderer than that of 
Mephitis ^. Feet slender. Tail very long. Ears prominent. Fur long and 
silky but not dense; hairs on the nape elongated and spreading side wise, 
forming a sort of hood. Upper parts chiefly white, under parts black; or 
upper parts nearly all black, with narrow lateral stripes, and under surface 
of tail white; between these two extremes are many intermediate phases. 
Frontal stripe narrow and often absent. 
552 Mephitis [or Chincha *, Mustela '] (Mephitis) americana ^ Desmarest, 
1818, Nouv. Diet. Hist, nat., Paris, v. 21, 514. So. #552 Mepliitis mephitis, 
fide Howell, 1901, 15. 
#552 Mephitis cinche (Mueller in Linn., 1776, Natursyst., Suppl., 32 [Viverra •]). 
Chinga. S. America *. Not positively identifiable, fide Howell, 1901, 15. 
Syns.: chinche'"' 1777; chinga'''' 1808; chingha''° 1815; chincha ''°1S27. 
Physaloptera t469. 
maxillaris. — Stom. — Brazil. 
Taenia 1 < t299. 
crassipora. — Small intest. 
Ascaris ^ 1479. 
alienata ^ 
*columnaris. — I n t e s t. — 
United States. 
#552 Mephitis chinga" Tiedem., 1808, Zool., v. 1, 362. So. #552 Mephitis 
cinche, q. v. 
#552 *Mephitis (Mephitis, Chincha) hudsonica (Richardson, 1829, Fauna 
Borea.-Amer., pt. 1, 55 [Mephitis americana]) Bangs, 1895, Proc. Boston Soc. 
Nat. Hist., V. 26, 536. Hudson's Bay Skunk, Northern Plains Skunk. Sas- 
katchewan *, Canada; western Canada from Manitoba to Brit. Columbia 
(east of Cascades); south in United States to Colorado, Nebraska, and 
Minnesota. 
Dermacentor t873. — Ext. 
■\*andersoni. 
#552 Mephitis [or Mephites"] (Leucomitra *) macroura Lichtenstein, 1832- 
1834, Darst. n. wenig bekannter Saugethiere, pt. 9, pi. 46. Hooded Skunk, 
Long-tailed skunk, langschwanziges Stinkthier. Mountains northwest of 
City of Mexico *; highlands of central and southern Mexico; south to Gua- 
temala. Syn. M. macrurus" True, 1885, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v. 7, 609. 
Ifeotriehodectes <tl099.— Ext. 
[*mephitidis « Osborn. — Ariz.] 
#552 Mephitis memphitis (Linn., 1758a, 44 [Viverra i]). Undeterminable, fide 
Howell, 1901, North Amer. Fauna, no. 20, 17. 
#552 Mephitis mephitica° (Shaw, 1792, Mus. Leveriani, London, 171 [Viverra '], 
mephitis renamed) Flower & Lydekker, 1891a, Introduc. Mamm., London, 
572. Common skunk. North America. So. #552 Mephitis (Mephitis) 
mephitis, q. v. 
#552 *Mephitis [or Mustela '] (Mephitis, Chincha) mephitis (Schreber, 1776, 
Saugthiere, v. 3, 444, pi. 121 [Viverra i]; ErxL, 1777, Syst. Anim., 491 [Vi- 
verra ']) Allen and others, 1902, Science, n. s., v. 16 (394), July, 115. Canada 
skunk. Eastern Canada*; Nova Scotia, Quebec, and northern Ontario; 
west and north at least to Oxford House, Keewatin. 
