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9228S. Skill ninl skull. Adult lualc Fort Klauiath, Orcoon. rlau-
luirv 5, 185KS. CoUoi'trd bv H. L. Cuiiiniiirhain. Original nuuihcr
!S(>(llS8x).
Wtll-iu:iclt' skin ill jroDil (I'liitlit ion; si. 36-37, pi. 3, fig. 2, August 31, 1901.
= Mephitis occidentalis notata (Howell). See Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Ilist.,
XIV, p. .334, November 12, 1901.
87048. Skin and skull. Adult male." Trout Lake, Mount Adams,
^Vashington. March 22. 1897. Collected by P. Schmid. Original
number 248x.
Well-niade skin in good condition; skull perfect, except for broken left mastoid
bulla.
Mephitis occidentalis iiaird.
Mammals of North America, p. 194, 1857.
2t517. Skull, Adult, probably male. Petaluma, California. Collected
by E. Samuels. Original number 887. Catalogued Decem-
ber 10, 1850.
Skull perfect except for loss of 15 nun. of right zygoma. There used to be a
skin. No. 1944, nrarked in the catalogue "Destroyecl Jan. 8, 1886."
Nr» type designated. A tabli' of detailed measurements is given of \'^l^, and
this one shoulil be regarded as the type. Four si)eciniens are li-sted: 2031, skull
from Santa Clara, California; 2434, skull; \',',ly, the above skin and skull both
from Petaluma, and a fourth specimen, skin without number, from Steilacoom,
Washington. Baird's brief diagnosis is based upon both cranial and skin char-
acters, so that again preference must be given to l^,}^, the only skin with skull
which he had.
Petaluma is regarded as the type locality by .Miller and Kehn (Proc. Boston
Soc. Nat. Mist., XXX, \k 214, December, 1901), and by Howell (North Amer.
Fauna, No. 20, p. 34, August 31, 1901).
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