| Parameters of population and seasonal activity of striped skunks, Mephitis mephitis. |
| Tortoises were very common, and the mephitis left frequent traces of his existence. |
| The striped skunk Mephitis mephitis is about the size of a cat, but has a stout body, a rather small head, short legs, and a bushy tail. |
| Because the odor is quite like mephitis it is considered a so-called anti-spasmodic. |
| Yet mephitis has the air of seeming rather to like, than to seek to avoid, mankind. |
| The biggest one of the mephitis family lives in Texas, and that empire is not disposed to boast itself withal on that account. |
