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In February, 1884, 0. H. Townsend caugbt oue on IMcCloud IJiver, 

 about halfway between tlie mouth of the river and Mount Shasta; he 

 also mentions a J*itt Kiver miner who had a pair alive; and C. P. Streator 

 reports it from old Fort Crook and Carberry Eanch. In Sei)tember, 

 1890, one of our collectors, E. A. rrel)le, caught oue in upper Ko<«ue 

 Iviver Valley, near Prospect, Oregon. 



Procyon psora pacifica subs}). nov. Pacitic Raccoon. 



Type i'rom Kechelus Lake, Cascade Mountains, Washington. No. 93137, ad., U. S. 

 Nat. Mns., Biological Survey Coll. Collected .Jan. 15, 1898, by C. Hansen. 



Characters. — Coloration dark; ground color dark gray instead of 

 buffy; tail rings continuous (not interru))ted along median line below); 

 last premolar, tirst molar, and audital bulla' larger than in psora. 



Color. — Upperi)arts dark gray everywhere profusely mixed with 

 and obscured by black hairs; underparts sooty-i)lumbeous sparingly 

 sprinkled with long buffy whitish hairs; sooty collar under throat con- 

 tinuous and much darker than in psora ; black rings on tail continuous; 

 pale rings, particularly the last one, obscured above by black hairs. 



Measurements. — Type (from dry skin) : Total length, 940; tail verte- 

 bra-, 310; hind foot, 115. 



Remarks. — This new raccoon is most typical in the northwest coast 

 region, particularly about Puget Sound and along the basal slopes of 

 the northern Cascades. Specimens from Pitt River and Little Shasta 

 Valley are much nearer pacifica than psora. 



Raccoons do not occur on the higher slopes of Shasta, but are common 

 about its base. In Little Shasta Valley W. H. Osgood and R. T. Fisher 

 found them particularly abundant about the middle of Sei)tember, and 

 caught several in traps set under prune trees. The animals were caus- 

 ing much annoyance to the fruit-raisers by nightly visits to the 

 orchards. 



Ursus americanus Pallas. Black Bear. 



Abundant. AVhen we reached Shasta the middle of July, black 

 bears were exceedingly common throughout the Shasta tir forest. On 

 July 17, in going from Wagon Camp to timberline, we saw fresh tracks 

 of a dozen along Panther Creek, and on the way down, three hours 

 later, saw where four had crossed our trail after we had gone up. Their 

 well-worn trails abounded along Panther Creek and were traversed 

 daily until about the end of July, when, after our collectors had been 

 shooting for nearly two weeks, the bears became alarmed and moved 

 down into the nianzanita chaparral below the Shasta firs, Avhere they 

 remained the rest of the season. 



Ursus horribilis Ord. Grizzly or Grisly Bear. 



Formerly abundant in the Shasta region; now exceedingly rare or 

 absent. W. H. Osgood was told when in Shasta Valley that a few 

 years ago a huge grizzly known as 'Old Clubfoot,' which had been shot 

 at repeatedly, was killed near Goose Nest Mountain, just north of 

 Shasta. 



