cingo, Hidalgo
(_op. cit._:21).

_Spilogale gracilis_, [Male] sad. 88154 from San Sebastian in
Jalisco, [Male] ad. 79017 from Lagos in Jalisco, [Male] ad. 47177
from Patzcuaro in Michoacan (_op. cit._:23).

_Spilogale ambigua_, [Male] ad. 35667/20437 from Barranca Ibarra in
Jalisco, [Male] yg. 120101 from Ocotlan in Jalisco (_op. cit._:25).

Hall and Villa (Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist, 1:448, December
27, 1949) inferred that No. 47177 from Patzcuaro was instead referable
to _Spilogale angustifrons angustifrons_. Our examination of No. 47177
and of each of the other specimens mentioned by catalogue number
immediately above leads us to conclude that they all are of one
species, and that, among named kinds of _Spilogale_, they should be
referred to the subspecies _Spilogale angustifrons angustifrons_
Howell.

Our examination of all of the specimens that Howell (_op. cit_.)
identified as _Spilogale [angustifrons] angustifrons_ reveals that
none of the specimens from the type locality had attained full adult
stature; the holotype is a subadult and the other specimens from the
type locality are even younger. The small size of these specimens from
the type locality seems to have misled Howell into thinking that they
were taxonomically distinct from the larger specimens--those from
Jalisco, Michoacan and Hidalgo--that he identified as other kinds.

~Spilogale gracilis gracilis~ Merriam

In the genus _Spilogale_ four specific names, concerning the status of
which we have been uncertain, are listed below in the order of their
appearance in the literature.

1890. _Spilogale gracilis_ Merriam, N. Amer. Fauna, 3:83,
September 11, type from bottom of canyon, Grand Canyon, Arizona.

1890. _Spilogale leucoparia_ Merriam, N. Amer. Fauna, 4:11,
October 8, type from Mason, Mason County, Texas.

1891. _Spilogale phenax arizonae_ Mearns, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat.
Hist., 3:256, June 5, type from near Fort Verde, Yavapai County,
Arizona.

1897. _Spilogale ambigua_ Mearns, Preliminary diagnoses of new
mammals ... from the Mexican boundary line, p. 3, January 12
[reprinted in Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 20:460, December 24, 1897],
type from summit of Eagle Cliff Mtn., 2 mi. S of Monument No. 5 of
Emory's Survey which, according to Miller (U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull.,
128:134, April 29, 1924), is "Eagle Mountain, Chihuahua, Mexico,
about four miles south of Dona