70 CARNIVORA. 
2. Procyon lotor. 
Ursus lotor, Linnzus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 70 (1766, deser. erig.)?. 
Procyon lotor, Allen, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. ii. p. 8257. 
Procyon lotor, var., Is. Geoffroy, Zool. Voy. Vénus, p. 125, pl. vi.’ 
Procyon hernandezii, Wagler, Isis, 1831, p. 514 (descr. orig.)*; Baird, Mamm. N. Am. p. 212°; 
Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. Surv. ii., Mamm. p. 22°; Frantzius, Arch. f. Naturg. xxxv. 1, p. 291”. 
Procyon hernandezii, var. mexicana, Baird, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. Surv. ii. Mamm. p. 22°; Dugés, 
La Nat. i. p. 137°. 
Procyon nivea, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. i. p. 580 (1857, descr. orig.)!®. 
Procyon psora, Gray, Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. x. p. 261 (1842, deser. orig.)" ; Zool. Voy. ‘ Sulphur,’ 
p- 32, pls. xi., xvui.!? 
Mapach quauh-pecotli, Hernandez, De Quad. Nov. Hisp. fol. 1, cap. i. 
Mapachin of Costa-Ricans’. 
Tejon solitario (common to Nasua nasica)*, Apache (common to Felis eyra)* of Mexicans. 
Hab. NortH America, from Alaska southwards?.,—Mexico, Sonora (Kennerly®), Guana- 
juato, Guadalajara (Dugés°), Mazatlan (Geoffroy *; Liebmann, Mus. Hafn.), Mira- 
dor, Colima, Tehuantepec (U.S. Nat. Mus.”); Guatemata (Godman & Salvin, Mus. 
Brit.) ; Costa Rica (Frantzius’; U.S. Nat. Mus.*). 
The southern race of the Common Raccoon was separated by Wagler as P. hernandezii*, 
and has since been made the basis of other nominal species; but the investigations of 
recent American zoologists, and especially those of Mr. J. A. Allen?, have clearly shown 
that the characters which have been relied on as specific are quite untrustworthy. The 
range of the Common Raccoon therefore extends throughout: Northern and Central 
America from Alaska in the north-west to Costa Rica, where it was found by Dr. v. 
Frantzius’, and whence there are specimens in the National Museum at Washington?. 
Throughout this extensive range the species presents considerable variation in colour, 
and a marked increase in size towards the southward; but Mr. Allen, after the 
examination of the large series of specimens at Washington, is doubtful whether these 
variations can be regarded as of even “ subspecific” value 2. 
American writers have given full details of the habits of the Raccoon as observed in 
the United States; and according to Drs. Berlandier, Kennerly ®, and von Frantzius’, 
its manner of life in Central America is quite similar. 
2. BASSARICYON. 
Bassaricyon, Allen, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1876, p. 20. 
The second genus of the Procyonide is only known at present by Mr. Allen’s descrip- 
tion and figures of its cranial characters. These were taken from the still unique type, 
a skull obtained by Professor Gabb in Costa Rica, the skin of the specimen having most 
unfortunately been mislaid in the National Museum at Washington. 
