Identifier: cu31924002876492 Title: California mammals Year: 1906 (1900s# Authors: Stephens, Frank Subjects: Mammals Publisher: San Diego, Ca. : West Coast Pub. Co.

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Text Appearing Before Image: he sides, the basesof most of the tail hairs white; skull similar to that of occiden-talis; teeth smaller; zygomatic arches heavier# Length about 640 mm## 25#15 inches#; tail vertebrae 285#11#25# ; hind foot 68 #2#67# ; ear from crown 18 ##70## Type locality, San Francisco Mountain, Arizona# Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, northeastern Lower Califor-nia and eastern California along the Colorado River# 240 CALIFORNIA MAMMALS# Genus Spilogale Gray# #Spot—weasel##Body snaall and rather slender; tail long and bushy; analscent glands highly developed; skull rather flat; sectorial teethwell developed; palate not extending much back of molars; sag-gital crest usually small; occipital crest large; auditory bulla?rather small; mastoid sinus inflated# Dental formula, I, 3—3; C, i—i; P, 3—3 ; M, i—2, X2^34# Spilogale phenax Merriam# #Deceptive## WESTERN SPOTTED SKUNK# Black with white stripes; four parallel white stripes fromthe head to the hips, a white stripe commencing behind the fore-

Text Appearing After Image: Western Spotted Skunk# leg running back and up on the hip with a spot on each side ofthe backbone in the direction of its fellow^ stripe; a transversestripe across the back part of the hips interrupted at the back-bone; a spot each side of the rump; more or less white at thebase of the tail; terminal third of the tail white, more extensive MUSTEDID^^: 241 below, a white spot on the forehead; more or less white aboutthe corners of the mouth# Length about 400 mm# #15#75 inches#; tail vertebrae 165#6#50# ; hind foot 46 #1#80# ; ear from crown 15 ##60## Type locality, Nicasio, Marin County, California# Western Spotted Skunks are common in many of the val-leys of central and southern California and in northern LowerCalifornia# They do not ordinarily range as high in the moun-tains as the larger Skunks do# The odor of the Spotted Skunkis more pungent than that of the larger species, but it is not aslasting# The only way that I know! of to kill this or atiy otherspecies of Skunk without its

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