, 75643, Mus. Zool. Univ.
Michigan) in an attempt to form our own judgment as to their
subspecific identity. The teeth of No. 75946 are well worn, whereas the
teeth of the other two are scarcely worn. We are unable to distinguish
No. 75946 from topotypes of _B. b. carolinensis_ by size, color, or
cranial features. The two younger specimens are smaller and paler, but
do not agree with the description of _B. b. hulophaga_. The
nearly-complete narrow, white girdle of No. 75947 is clearly an
individual variation. We assign the animals to _Blarina brevicauda
carolinensis_ (Bachman) as did Blair (_loc. cit._).

~Blarina brevicauda minima~ Lowery

Bailey (N. Amer. Fauna, 25:207, October 24, 1905) identified as
_Blarina brevicauda carolinensis_ one specimen from Joaquin and two
specimens from Big Thicket, 8 mi. NE Sour Lake, both localities in
eastern Texas. Strecker and Williams (Jour. Mamm., 10:259, August 10,
1929) later recorded the specimens again under the same name. The
subsequent naming of _B. b. plumbea_ from Aransas National Wildlife
Refuge, Aransas County, Texas (Davis, Jour. Mamm., 22(3):317, August
14, 1941) and _B. b. minima_ from Louisiana (Lowery, Occas. Papers Mus.
Zool., Louisiana St. Univ., 13:218, November 22, 1943) leaves the
identity of the specimens from eastern Texas in doubt. We have examined
the following specimens in the Biological Surveys Collection, U.S.
National Museum: No. 117372, from Joaquin; No. 136407, from 7 mi. NE
Sour Lake; and No. 136788, from 8 mi. NE Sour Lake. We judge these to
be the specimens referred to by Bailey (_loc. cit._). We find that they
are indistinguishable from specimens of _Blarina brevicauda minima_ and
they seem to differ from _B. b. plumbea_ in being chestnut rather than
plumbeous in color and in lacking the highly-arched posterior border of
the palate. They are easily distinguished from _B. b. carolinensis_ by
their chestnut, rather than slaty-black, color and small size. They are
distinguishable from _B. b. hulophaga_, to which they might conceivably
be referred on geographic grounds, by their color and small size. We
refer them to _Blarina brevicauda minima_ Lowery.

~Spilogale angustifrons angustifrons~ A. H. Howell

In his "Revision of the skunks of the genus Spilogale" (N. Amer. Fauna,
26, November 24, 1906) A. H. Howell identified certain specimens in the
United States National Museum as follows:

_Spilogale leucoparia_, [Male] sad. 55585 from Tulan