484 



BASSARISCUS. 



Head short, muzzle pointed, ears large; body slender, elongate; 

 pads naked, soles hairy; tail long as body, annulate. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



A. Size large. 



a. Upper parts yellowish brown and gray; be- PAGE 

 neath white B. astutus 484 



b. Upper parts blackish tawny B. a. flavus 485 



c. Upper parts mixed dark brown and black; 



beneath buffy ochraceous B. saxicola 485 



d. Upper parts smoky gray, lined with black; 



feet fawn gray B. s. notinus 485 



e. Upper parts dark gray, hairs tipped with 



black; feet whitish B. albipes 486 



B. Size small; above mixed black and golden 



brown; beneath yellowish white B. annulatus 487 



FIG. LXVI. BASSARISCUS ASTUTUS. COMMON RACCOON-FOX. 



479. astutus (Bassaris), Licht., Wagler, Isis, 1831, p. 513. Elliot, 



Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 316. 

 COMMON RACCOON-FOX. Cacamistl in Mexico. Cat Squirrel in Texas. 



