NO. 5 MAMMALS OF PANAMA GOLDMAN I49 



Genus ICTICYON Lund. Bush Dogs 



The somewhat aberrant genus Icticyon was not until the present 

 survey known to enter Panama. It is a robust animal with short 

 ears, limbs, and tail and at first glance is scarcely recognized as a 

 member of the Canine family. The general proportions and long 

 hair give the bush dog a badger-like appearance. 



ICTICYON PANAMENSIS Goldman 



Panama Bush Dog 



[Plate 31, figs. I, la] 



Icticyon panamensis Goldman, Smiths. Misc. Coll., Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 14-15, 

 September 20, 1912. Type from near head of Rio Limon, Mount Pirre, 

 eastern Panama (altitude 5,000 feet). 



One afternoon while in camp near the summit of Mount Pirre 

 several short dog-like barks were heard not far away. Cautiously 

 stalking in that direction I saw the whitish shoulders of an old female 

 bush dog suddenly appear through a small opening, presenting a 

 conspicuous target in the dimly lighted forest. A quick shot brought 

 her down. Three nearly full-grown young were soon sighted, two 

 of which were secured while the other escaped. Tracks led to a 

 burrow a few yards away on a steep hillside covered with tall forest. 

 Fresh earth had been thrown out of a tunnel directed downward at 

 an angle of about 45 degrees. The ground was trampled and the 

 place showed other signs of habitation for a considerable period. 

 Many bones and fragments scattered about the entrance to the 

 burrow had been carried from a heap of camp refuse ; the bush dogs 

 had evidently been our very near neighbors for two weeks before 

 the barking, probably of the young, led to detection. 



The discovery of a bush dog in Panama materially extends the 

 known range of the genus northward. The Panama animal 

 apparently differs from Icticyon venaticus of Brazil in the whitish 

 color of the anterior part of the body and in cranial details. 



Specimens examined: Three, an old female (the type) and her 

 offspring, two nearly full-grown young, from Mount Pirre. 



Family PROCYONIDAE. Raccoons, Cacomistles, Coatis, and 



Kinkajous, etc. 



The family includes the familiar " coon," the less familiar " caco- 

 mistle," representatives of which reach the United States, the rare 

 Bassaricyon, and the common coatis and kinkajous of the American 



