PROCYON. TAXIDEA. 310 



Measurements. Total length, 855; tail vertebra', 295; hind 

 foot, 128. 



c.—pacificus. (Pronvri), Merr., N. Am. Faim., No. 16, 1899, p. 107. 



Ty/e locality. Kechelus Lake, Cascade Mountains, Washington. 



Gcoi^r. Distr. Puget Sound, and basal slopes of northern Cas- 

 cades. 



Color. Above dark gray mixed with black; beneath sooty 

 plumbeous sprinkled with white hairs; black rings on tail continu- 

 ous; pale rings obscured above with black. 



Measurements. Total length, 940; tail vertebra', 310; hind 

 foot, 115. 



d.—elucus. [Frocyon). Bangs, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1898, 

 x.wiii, p. 219. 



Type locality. Oak Lodge, Brevard County, Florida. 



Geogr. Distr. Eastern Georgia and Florida. 



Genl. Char. Size rather larger than /'. lotor. tail usually longer; 

 ears more rounded, skull not so constricted behind postorbital proc- 

 esses, frontal region high and arched. 



Color. Variable; under fur mouse-gray to yellowish drab gray, 

 long hairs above ringed with dull yellow and black; above shoulders 

 large patch of orange rufous, some hairs black tipped; rest of pelage 

 dull yellow, ochraceous on cheeks, sides of throat, vent antl root of 

 tail; lips and chin dull yellow. Usual black band on cheeks. Tail 

 ringed with ochraceous blackish brown. 



.Measurements. Type. Total length, 892; tail vertebras, 286; 

 hind foot, 125. Skull: basal length, 109.6; zygomatic breadth, 81.2; 

 mastoid breadth, 64.6; postorbital processes, 24.8; mandible length, 

 88.4. (Bangs 1. c.) 



Earn. V. 91u!«teli4lae. 



A single tubercular molar tooth on either side of both jaws; in 

 upper molar the inner tubercular portion longest in the antero-pos- 

 terior direction; bulla; slightly inflated; palate extending beyond the 

 last molars; feet five-toed, plantigrade, or digitigrade. No Caicum. 



Sub. Fam. I. Melinae. 

 Large quadrate posterior upper molar; molars in jaws unequal. 



76. Taxidea. 



I. ^; C. ^; P. ]^; M. ;_; = 34- 

 Taxidea. Waterh. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1838, p. 154. Type .1/. ameri- 

 cana, Bodd. 



