Identifier: cu31924002876492 Title:
California mammals Year:
1906 (
1900s# Authors:
Stephens, Frank Subjects:
Mammals Publisher:
San Diego, Ca. : West Coast Pub. Co. View Book Page:
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view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book# 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 Note About Images 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 work.