The specimens from scattered localities in the Transition Life-zone of northwestern Colorado and southern Wyoming are larger than _nevadensis_ is elsewhere, and also in certain other features resemble _longicauda_ of the plains to the eastward. Everything considered, the animals in question are much more like _nevadensis_ than _longicauda_. Study of more specimens, especially from Wyoming, might provide grounds for recognizing as a different subspecies the animals in this large area comprising parts of Colorado and Wyoming from which so few specimens now are available. Possibly the name _Putorius culbertsoni_ Coues would apply. Decision on that point will require adequate material from the type locality, Fort Laramie. See discussion of this name under _M. f. longicauda_.

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