Part 7

Specimens examined, 12: nos. 100100-100111, distributed by localities as follows: 1 mi. N Zamora, 5,450 ft., 1; 3 mi. N PAitzcuaro, 6,800 ft., 3; 3 mi. NW PAitzcuaro, 6,700 ft., 3; Isla Janitzio, Lago de PAitzcuaro, 6,600 ft., 5.

Remarks.--This species is widespread in MA(C)xico, ranging from sea level to high elevations as at the type locality. In MichoacAin most of our specimens were shot as they flew about at early dusk. The five from Isla Janitzio were shot as they clung to the roof of a cave along with scores of other individuals of the same species.

=Eumops underwoodi underwoodi= Goodwin

Mastiff Bat; Spanish, MurciA(C)lago Mastin

Eumops underwoodi Goodwin, Amer. Mus. Novitates, 1075:2, June 27, 1940, type from El Pedrero, 6 km. N Chinaela, approximately 3,000 ft. elevation, Dept. La Paz, Honduras.

Range.--Known only from TancA-taro Mtn.

Specimen examined, 1: no. 89461, Univ. Michigan Mus. ZoAśl., from Rancho Escondido, 2 mi. N Apo, TancA-taro Mtn., ad. with much worn teeth, taken June 11, 1945, by W. H. Burt.

Remarks.--Selected measurements of this specimen are: Total length, 158; ear from notch, 32; mastoid breadth, 16.1; width across crowns of M3, 12.6; maxillary tooth-row (from anterior face of canine above cingulum to posterior face of M3), 11.8. The total length is less than in E. underwoodi or than in Eumops sonoriensis Benson (1947:133); the other measurements given above exceed those of E. sonoriensis and equal or approach those of E. underwoodi. The ears seem not to be connected across the forehead; the color is near (l) Bister above and slightly lighter on the underparts.

The specimen is clearly intermediate in size, as it also is geographically, between Eumops underwoodi underwoodi Goodwin and Eumops underwoodi sonoriensis Benson and gives basis for arranging these two named kinds as subspecies of a single species as Benson (1947:134) suggested might prove to be necessary. We are not certain whether this specimen should be referred to the subspecies underwoodi or sonoriensis and probably this uncertainty will remain until the range of individual variation in underwoodi is known.

=Procyon lotor hernandezii= Wagler

Raccoon; Spanish, Mapache; Tarascan, ApAitze (Apatz)

Pr[ocyon] hernandezii Wagler, Isis, 24:514, 1831, type from Valley of MA(C)xico, according to Nelson and Goldman (Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 44:17, February 21, 1931).

Procyon lotor hernandezii, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 3:176, December 10, 1890.

Range.--Statewide.

Specimens examined, 2: no. 100113 from 10 mi. ESE Zamora, 5,500 ft., 1; no. 52220 from 15 kms. W Apatzingan, 1,040 ft., 1.

Remarks.--In allusion to its habit of washing its food, in captivity at least, before eating it, the Spanish speaking people often refer to this species as ositos labadores. The specimen from 10 mi. ESE Zamora is a skull without lower jaws or indication of sex. Because the racoons damage corn in the roasting ear stage the animals are disliked by the farmers, a score of whom sometimes band together in an organized hunt to kill the animals. Dogs are especially trained to hunt them. In MichoacAin no use is made of the pelts.

=Nasua narica molaris= Merriam

Coati; Spanish, Pizote; Tarascan, AmAitze (Amatz)

Nasua narica molaris Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 15:68, March 22, 1902, type from Manzanillo, Colima; Goldman, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 55:79, June 25, 1942.

Range.--Probably all but higher parts of state.

Remarks.--We have no positive record of this animal which Goldman (1942:79) writes "is widely distributed from Jalisco south through Colima, MichoacAin, ... to southwestern Oaxaca." In the parts of MichoacAin visited by us the Spanish name tejA cubedn instead of pizote was used for this animal although in parts of MA(C)xico where the badger (Taxidea) occurs, tejA cubedn is, we understand, the name used for the badger.

=Bassariscus astutus consitus= Nelson and Goldman

Ring-tailed Cat; Spanish, Cacomixtle

Bassariscus astutus consitus Nelson and Goldman, Jour. Washington Acad. Sci., 22:487, October 19, 1932, type from La Salada, 40 mi. S Uruapan, MichoacAin.

Range.--Probably greater part, or all, of state.

Specimen examined, 1: no. 100112 from 3 mi. NW PAitzcuaro, 6,700 ft.

Remarks.--La Salada and three miles northwest of PAitzcuaro are the two localities represented by actual specimens. A live animal, at night, was seen one mile east and four miles south of TacAimbaro at 4,500 feet elevation. The young female from three miles northwest of PAitzcuaro was trapped at a break in a stone fence.

Ring-tailed cats live in the stone walls, crevices and rocky ledges, around corn fields and pasture lands.