BANGS: NORTH AMERICAN MINK. 
5 
Putorius vison vulgivagus Bangs. 
$ The Louisiana mink. 
» . i, ' # 
Putorius ( Lutreola) vulgivagus Bangs, Proc. Boston soc. nat. 
hist., 24, p. 539. (Author’s edition, July 31, 1895.) 
Type locality. Burbridge (Plaguemines Parish), Louisiana. 
Geographical distribution. Shores of the Gulf of Mexico from 
Texas to Florida, and probably the Atlantic coast of southern South 
Carolina and Georgia. 
Inhabits the Austroriparian zone. 
General characters. Rather smaller than P. lutreocephalus ; very 
lio’ht colored. 
O 
Color. Uniform light yellowish brown; tip of the tail much 
darker and in marked contrast; chin and usually some markings 
on the chest and belly white. 
Size. £ young adult (the t}^pe). Total length, 567 mm.; tail 
vertebrae, 173 mm.; hind foot, 71 mm. 
£ very old adult. Total length, 617 mm.; tail vertebrae, 
208 mm.; hind foot, 79 mm. 
9 old adult. Total length, 478 mm.; tail vertebrae, 159 mm.; 
hind foot, 58.5 mm. All from Burbridge, La. 
The skull. Large and heavy, and with a strong sagittal crest; 
not battened between the orbits, but well arched; audital bullae 
deep and large. Mandible very heavy. Dentition very heavy 
throughout, especially the last upper molar which is extremely large. 
Remarks. Putorius vulgivagus is very abundant along the 
coast of Louisiana, and extends into the interior, at least as far as 
Point Aux Loups Springs, Acadia Parish, La., where Mr. Small took 
a fine series in the early summer of 1895. It can at once be sepa¬ 
rated from any of our mink by its light color and very heavy 
dentition. 
Putorius vison energumenos 1 subsp. nov. 
The Pacific mink. 
Type No. 3555, coll, of E. A. and O. Bangs. 
£ young adult from Sumas, B. C., Sept. 23,1895, Allan C. Brooks, 
collector. Original No. 514. Total length, 600 mm.; tail vertebrae, 
205 mm.; hind foot, 72 mm. 
i » 
cvtpYOvixevos, possessed of the devil. 
