Prof. Wiegmann on the Genus Procyon. 135 



upper part is of the same colour as the back, with a mixture 

 of several single long bright fox red hairs ; the lower part is 

 greyish brown, surrounded on the upper side by four black 

 bands not quite so distinct, the last of which almost passes 

 into the black end of the tail. The snout is shorter than that 

 of the Lotor, without being thicker and broader on that ac- 

 count. The oval ears are shorter, and measure only one third 

 of the length of the head. The fore and hind legs are thinner, 

 more slender than in P. Lotor, from which it appears longer 

 legged than the grey species. The soles of the hind feet not 

 bare to the heel, smaller than in P. Lotor ; the heel covered 

 with hair. 



5. Procyon cancrivorus, 111. 

 Supra cinereo-fulvus, fusco irroratus, subtus albicans, capite nuchaque 

 canescentibus, macula oculum cingente fusco-nigra, parva, in genam 

 baud porrecta, cum opposita supra naribus in rostro medio confluente, 

 fascia superciliari alba, genis fuscescenti-cinereis, antibrachiis cruribus- 

 que fuscis, pedibus digitisque subrasis (parce pilosis) e fusco-cinereis, 

 cauda gracili, griseo nigroque annulata. America meridionalis. 

 Length of body, 2 f. ; tail somewhat above 1 f. 



The descriptions which authors have given us of Procyon 

 cancrivorus do not at all agree. Compared with Procyon 

 Lotor it appears higher legged, as the Prince of Neuwied had 

 already observed in his description of this animal ; it has a 

 much shorter ear, shorter claws, and the feet are but thinly 

 covered with hair. The hair of the body is also different ; the 

 fur is less developed, the bristles shorter and stiffer : the fore 

 feet between the knee and the foot are dark brown ; the four 

 feet are more of a brownish grey. The circumference of the 

 mouth whitish; a white band passes from the forehead over 

 the eye to the cheek. The smallness of the blackish brown 

 mark surrounding the eye, which in the other species descends 

 lower than the cheeks, but in this does not even reach them, 

 besides its mixing on the back of the snout with that of the 

 other side, is especially characteristic for this species, as was 

 already noticed by Fischer. The tail in our specimen has the 

 colour of the back ; then follow six black bands, which alter- 

 nate with as many yellowish white grey bands : its tip is black. 



