Ban-s.] 
534 
[May .5. 
group, — very different in many particulars from the Mephitis 
mephitica group. The principal differences are the large bushy 
tail with a blunt brush-like end (never tipped with white as in 
the eastern species) around which the long white hairs of the 
sides of the tail fall, the heavy dentition, large, massive, elongated 
skull, and the much larger size of the animal. These skunks 
are also more uniform in coloration than the eastern ones and 
seem to have almost always the two white stripes extending 
from the nuchal patch right back to and down the sides of the 
tail enclosing a black central stripe all along the back. 
Measurements of Twextv-four Eastern Skunks. 
Mephitis mephitica (Shaw). 
No. 
Locality. 
Sex. 
Age. 
If 
1 
"= 
s 
P 
2249 > 
N. S., Annapolis. 
rT 
young ad. 
635 
226 
78 
34 
2022' 
N. S., Digby. 
r? 
old ad 
682 
171 
83 
33.5 
2438' 
Maine, l^uckport. 
? 
old ad. 
544 
169 
62 
30 
2684-^ 
Maine, Upton. 
old ad. 
660 
280 
70 
268.32 
<. 
J 
old ad. 
612 
217 
68 
2024' 
N. S., Digby. 
rT 
young. 
390 
146 
60 
24.5 
2023' 
? 
young. 
439 
179 
65 
28 5 
Intermediate between Mephitis mephitica and M. m. ehngata. 
1705 
1708 
1709 
1706 
798 
112 
1736 
1735 
1711 
1710 
10-30 
2416 
2372 
Mass., Wareham. 
Conn., Liberty Hill. 
old ad. 
old ad. 
old ad. 
old ad. 
old ad. 
old ad. 
young ad. 
young ad. 
young. 
young. 
adult. 
young ad. 
old ad. 
599 
200 
68.5 
548 
231 
54.5 
623 
248 
64 
595 
251. 
61 
584 
242 
63 
569 
228 
62 
580 
241 
69 
561 
226 
67 
336 
137 
45.5 
329 
128 5 
45 
5()5 
252 
63 
564 
2.53 
60.5 
591 
2.39 
63 
26 
28 
33 
26 
28 5 
3J5 
27 
23 
22 
28 
28 
29 
Mephitis mephitica ehngata Bangs. 
3052' 
Fla., Micco. 
^ 
old ad. 
719 
329 
76 
34 
3051' 
" 
^ 
young ad. 
686 
312 
72 
34 
24823 
" Blitches Ferry. 
S' 
young ad. 
715 
351 
72 
24833 
¥ 
old ad. 
673 
330 
70 
Measured by O. Bangs. 
' Measured by James Bernier. 
'Measured by F. L. Small. 
