"Their size it about that of a badger. They move slowly, and seldom attempt to escape man by flight. The form is elegant, and the colors, disposed of longitudinal abnds, are strinkingly contrasted. The great distinction of the genus is the possessing of the two glands beneath the anus, fromo which they eject, to a considerable distance, a liquid possessing the revolting odor of the polecat, with a suffocating and overpowering smell of garlic." — S. G. Goodrich, 1885

Skunk

"Their size it about that of a badger. They move slowly, and seldom attempt to escape man by flight.…