54 . FAUNA AMERICANA. 



nails ; during progression the heel does not rest 

 entirely upon the soil. 



Six ventral mammse. 



Habit. Feeding like the bear on animal and 

 vegetable substances; more active than these 

 animals ; climbing trees with facility. 



Inhabit both North and South America. 



Species. 



1. Ursus lotor^ Linn. Erxleb. Bodd. 



Le Raton, Buffon, hist. nat. torn. 8. pi. 43. 



Procyon lotor, Cuvier, Regne anim. p. 143. 



Vulpes americana, Charleton. Coati Brasilien- 

 sium, Klein. ,^gouarapope, d'Azara, Essai sur 

 I'hist. nat. des quadr. du Paraguay. Mapach, of 

 the Mexicans. 



Raccoon of the Americans, 



Char. Essent. Colour grayish-brown; snout 

 white, with a brown line passing through the eyes ; 

 tail ringed with brown and white. 



Dimensions. Length of the body, one foot nine 

 inches three lines ; of the head, five inches nine 

 lines ; of the tail, eight inches six lines ; greatest 

 height one foot. 



Description. (Male,) pupil of the eye round ; 

 nose prolonged beyond the jaws, but less than the 

 nose of the Coati, terminating in a glandular muz- 

 zle, at the end of which open the nostrils, which 

 are prolonged on the sides and curve upwards ; 

 lips extensible ; ears elliptical, very simple ; skin 



