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Little Striped Skunk
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- Length
- 1 foot 3 inches.
- Description
- A diminutive of the common skunk, with a different colour pattern. Black, with a broad white patch on the forehead, a crescent before each ear and four parallel stripes on the back, interrupted and broken behind. Tail black with a terminal tuft of white hairs.
- Range
- Florida; local and most common on the eastern peninsula. In Mississippi, Alabama and Western Georgia north to West Virginia occurs a somewhat larger variety, with the white markings much reduced--the Eastern striped skunk, S. ringens (Merriam). Others occur in the West.
These little skunks have much the same habits as their larger brothers, possessing the same attractive appearance and the same ability to make their presence extremely disagreeable.