. Biological survey of Texas : Life zones, with characteristic species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and plants. Reptiles, with notes of distribution. Mammals, with notes on distribution, habits and economic importance. Zoology Texas. 1905.] 199 Spilogale interrupta (Rafine-que K Prairie >potted SIvunk. This dark form of the spotted skunk, or spilogale. witli the nar- row white stripes, conies into Texas from the more northern plains, and is represented by specimens from Canadian. Gainesville, and Bnizos. Beyond these localities there are no specimens to show the limits of its range in
. Biological survey of Texas : Life zones, with characteristic species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and plants. Reptiles, with notes of distribution. Mammals, with notes on distribution, habits and economic importance. Zoology Texas. 1905.] 199 Spilogale interrupta (Rafine-que K Prairie >potted SIvunk. This dark form of the spotted skunk, or spilogale. witli the nar- row white stripes, conies into Texas from the more northern plains, and is represented by specimens from Canadian. Gainesville, and Bnizos. Beyond these localities there are no specimens to show the limits of its range in the State or to indicate whether it grades into the neighboring forms to the south. Though the little " spotted ; " hydropholna ; or " phoby cats " are reported from. Fig. 23.—Distribution areas of spotted skunks (genus Spilofjale). almost every part of Texas, even including the top of the Staked Plains, there is >till much to be learned of the range and relationships of the several forms inhabiting the State. Although, broadly speaking, plains animals, these spilogales. like most species of the genus, take advantage of any cover in the way of bushes, tall grass, stream banks, or old buildings that the country offers. In Kansas I have caught them in burrows in the sandy soil, but whether the burrows were of their own digging or borrowed from spermophiles or other burrowing mammals I could not tell. At Canadian. Tex., one was caught in a Xo. 0 steel trap set in an old. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942; Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942; United States. Division of Biological Survey. Washington : G. P. O.
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