Raccoon lOll 



In addition to the Family and generic characters unmis- size 

 takable specific pecuHarities. 



An adult male killed at Springfield, near Toronto, Ont., 

 June 25, 1888, was 32^ inches (826 mm.) from tip of nose to tip 

 of tail-bone. The head and body from nose to ischium were 

 23I inches (604 mm.); the tail-bone, lof inches (263 mm.); 

 from tip of front toe to tip of outstretched hind toe, 37I inches 

 (950 mm.). This was a 

 very fine and fat individual. 

 Hind-foot of another speci- 

 men was 4^ inches (108 

 mm.). A female caught at 

 the same place, fifteen days 

 earlier, was 3 1 ^ inches (8oi 

 mm.) from tip of nose to '^n^. 



tip of tail-bone; the head '''°f'~f',fo?V^''''';r *' 



I ' Spniigncld, Out., June 25, i883. 



and body from nose to 



ischium were 21 }i inches (552 mm.); the tail-bone, 11 

 inches (280 mm.). She was still in milk; her 6 teats were as 

 shown in Fig. 233. 



The above male weighed 18 pounds; the female barely 10. weight 

 I consider the male about average size and the female small. 

 Audubon and Bachman give' 22 pounds as the ascertained 

 weight of a good size male. 



In general the Coon is of a dull brownish-gray, becoming colour 

 yellower on the back, strongly yellow on nape and on tail, and 

 a paler gray on the belly and feet; on all the upper parts, es- 

 pecially along the spine, the long hairs are black tipped, and on 

 the under parts they are white tipped. On the cheek is a black 

 patch that includes the eye, and joins with the narrow blackish 

 stripe that runs from the nose to the dark colour on the fore- 

 head. Around this the face is dull white, whitest in a band 

 above each eye; the lower back part of the ear is black, which 

 joins with a black patch on the neck behind the ear — the tip of 



' Q. N. A., 1849, Vol. II, p. 76. 



