Remarks.—We have no positive record of this animal which Goldman (1942:79) writes "is widely distributed from Jalisco south through Colima, Michoacán, ... to southwestern Oaxaca." In the parts of Michoacán visited by us the Spanish name tejón instead of pizote was used for this animal although in parts of México where the badger (Taxidea) occurs, tejón 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, Michoacán.
Range.—Probably greater part, or all, of state.
Specimen examined, 1: no. 100112 from 3 mi. NW Pátzcuaro, 6,700 ft.
Remarks.—La Salada and three miles northwest of Pátzcuaro are the two localities represented by actual specimens. A live animal, at night, was seen one mile east and four miles south of Tacámbaro at 4,500 feet elevation. The young female from three miles northwest of Pátzcuaro 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.
Mustela frenata leucoparia (Merriam)
Weasel; Spanish, Comadreja; Tarascan, Apásr or Apatzee (Apatz)
Putorius frenatus leucoparia Merriam, N. Amer. Fauna, 11:29, June 30, 1896, type from Pátzcuaro, Michoacán.
Mustela frenata leucoparia, Miller, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 79:100, December 31, 1912.