. The land and sea mammals of Middle America and the West Indies . l short,cylindrical, bushy, not so long as the body, ending in a long pencilof hair; hind feet moderate; sole bald, fiat, the front portion dividedinto fotir oblong pads, the central one small and triangular, beforethe others, hinder part narrow; front claws elongate, brown; falsegrinders 73; upper tubercular grinder square, moderate sized. (Gray,) KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES. A. Skull narrow, arched. a. Size small; not over 415 mm. page a. Tail with tip only white S. pygmcea 519 b. Tail with apical third white. a. Ba
. The land and sea mammals of Middle America and the West Indies . l short,cylindrical, bushy, not so long as the body, ending in a long pencilof hair; hind feet moderate; sole bald, fiat, the front portion dividedinto fotir oblong pads, the central one small and triangular, beforethe others, hinder part narrow; front claws elongate, brown; falsegrinders 73; upper tubercular grinder square, moderate sized. (Gray,) KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES. A. Skull narrow, arched. a. Size small; not over 415 mm. page a. Tail with tip only white S. pygmcea 519 b. Tail with apical third white. a. Bands on thighs present 5. ambigiia 521 b. Bands on thighs absent. a. Size small; total length 345 mm. .5. angustifrons 521 b. Size large; total length, 378 mm. .5. a. tropicalis 521 c Tail with apical half white S. a. martirensis 521 b. Size large; over 415 mm S. interrupta 523 B. Skull broad, flat S. hicasana 523 496. pygmaea {Spilogale), Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1897, p. Spotted Skunk. Type locality. Rosario, State of Sinaloa, Mexico. 520 Fig. 98. Spilogale 0878 Field Columbian Mus. Coll. Nat. size. Geogr. Distr. State of Sinaloa, Mexico. Geiil. Char. Size very small. Skull narrow, crown elevated; tailless than half the length of body. Color. Black with white stripes and spots: white band acrossface from ear to ear; two median gray dorsal bands extending torump, each divided by a narrow longitudinal black line; chin and twostripes from it to the ear patches white; lateral stripe and one run-ning up onto the thighs white, as is also the upper surface of feet;inner side of legs black; tail at base above mixed black and white,tip white; beneath black at base; rest white. I SPILOGALE. 521 Measurements. Total length, 250; tail vertebrae, 68; hind foot,34; ear, 23. Skull: basal length, ; Hensel, ; occipito-nasallength, ; mastoid breadth, ; across postorbital processes, 14;palatal length, 15; length of first upper molar, 497
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