side and with outer posterior cusp distinctly smaller than outer anterior 

 cusp; formerly 111. to Fla. and Texas 



Canis niger Bartram Red Wolf 

 (Includes C. rufus (Audubon & Bachman) ) 



51. Very large mammals, weighing up to nine hundred pounds; tail very short; 



Family Ursidae Bears 52. 



Much smaller, not over fifty pounds; tail moderate to long 55. 



52. Profile of face concave or "dished in"; claws of fore feet twice as long 



as those on hind feet; with a long'haired hump on the shoulders; Great 

 Plains and Rockies 



Ursus horribihs Ord Grizzly Bear 

 Profile almost straight; claws of fore feet only slightly longer than those 

 on hind feet; no long-haired hump on the shoulders 53. 



53. In most of wooded United States except the extreme southeastern and 



Gulf states 



Ursus americanus Pallas Black Bear (Cinnamon or Brown 



Bear are color phases of this species) 

 (Euarctos americanus (Pallas) ) 

 From eastern Texas to Florida and Georgia (Now considered to be sub' 

 species of the preceding) 54. 



54. With the region between and back of the eyes high arched; Georgia to 



Ala. 



Ursus flor-idanus (Merriam) Everglades Black Bear 

 (Euarctos floridanus (Merriam) ) 

 With the region between and back of the eyes almost flat; from La. into 

 eastern Texas 



Ursus luteolus Griffith Louisiana.Black Bear 

 (Euarctos luteolus (Griffith) ) 



55. Tail with a series of six or more definite dark rings; Family Procyonidae 



56. 

 Not so; Family Mustehdae 58. 



56. Tail about one-half of total length; body long and slender; weight of 



adult about two and one-half pounds; in the southern states from Texas 

 westward 



Bassariscus astutus (Lichtenstein) Ring-tailed Cat, Cacomistle 

 Tail about one-third of total length; body thick set; weight of adult about 

 fifteen pounds or more 57. 



57. Dark rings on tail almost as wide as the lighter spaces between; color griz- 



zled gray, brown or black; generally distributed 

 Procyon lotor (Linn.) Raccoon 

 Dark rings on tail considerably narrower than the lighter areas between; 

 pale gray and black; desert regions of California 



Procyon pallidus Merriam Desert Raccoon 

 (Now considered to be a subspecies of the preceding.) 



58. Claws of fore feet over one inch long; head and body very flat and broad; 



hair long, silvery, gray grizzled with black; head with a narrow, median, 

 white stripe and a white patch below each eye; generally distributed 



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